The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than skimming the surface.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

Society doesn't have values. People have values.

The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.

We must realize that nature is absolutely essential for our survival, and we must act on that premise now.

You get out what you put in. If you want more, give more.

If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.

The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen.

I love yoga and I feel like yoga for me is incredible.

The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say."

All men would still really like to own a train set.

So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way.