The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made.

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.

A Mac is a closed box, so Apple can make decisions about things that they don't include. That makes, it in some ways, simpler for them.

You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked.

The highest heaven is not in the sky, it is in the human mind.

Stupid. Why do people want to pretendthat death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

I still don't have a car. I still travel by public transport. I take autos to travel to and fro for recordings.

Hence the solution lies in finding a means of so readjusting this exclusive element to the family of nations, that the basis of the Jewish question will be permanently removed.

Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished.

What if we just acted like everything was easy?

I don't feel like I have a lot of reference to sexual innuendo on my songs.

The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.