Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else.

In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

I have some favorites. I love Chaplin; I mean I really love Chaplin. I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.

Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.

There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.

As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very meaningful in your own mental scrapbook.

You rarely get a tentpole that has this much emotional depth, this much character to dive into.

As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make because of the fixed and tight production schedule.

Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.

Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great.

Confrontation was the stuff of daily life.

The cost of ignorance is high and it can erode life, vision and wealth to the barren grounds of poverty and perplexity.

What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.

He's a male chauvinistic piglet.

So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love.

Most people are on the world, not in it.

You have a wound too, Papa." Hanna took Brigan's left hand, which was wrapped in a bandage, and inspected it. "Did you throw the first punch?

We must buy jewelry; it identifies us with our tribe, just as body piercing identifies those of a different tribe.