The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.

I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store.

Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.

Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.

The power of prayer is miraculous!

never thought one day tht person will throw me out from his life whom i loved too much more thn tht of nothng

There was no point in the gods trying to separate us. Whether we were on Earth or in hell, we'd spend the rest our days look for the other.

Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

The transcendental light permeates your being and washes away impurity. All those different selves which are limited and binding and hurting are washed away.

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

Everyone steals from something or someone.

I wasn't Santa in Santa Jr., but I was Santa in Cancel Christmas.

There's nothing magic about spending on tanks and bombs rather than roads and bridges.