The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.

And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my fingers upon thee!

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.

Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

Hamburgers! The corner-stone of any nutritious breakfast.

When people keep telling you that you can’t do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

People don't do me much good.

An old man dies. A young woman lives. A fair trade.

A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.

It's seldom that you get to work with one director more than once. I've worked with Clint Eastwood three times, but that's the only one that's happened with, simply because I adore his work.

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.

I do know its important to keep the romantic spark alive in your marriage. But with four kids, sometimes it's enough just to keep yourself alive.

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world.