The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.

Cat lovers turn into cat collectors.

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

She is such a scene-stealer. She's got these lashes and big eyes, and when she walks on to the set everybody just says "ooh."

I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.

I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.

If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it.

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.

I've never had a clear road map. When things come along, I benefit.

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

The awareness that seeks to know is the very object of its own seeking.

Who are we to think we deserve anything? What makes us so great? No one is "lucky" to have us. We are all full of it.

The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.

Happiness often comes when least expected.

I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that you can always edit a bad page; you can't edit a blank page.

My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard's history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.

In some places you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive. I also take into account historical realities that some of this range in color is the legacy of white supremacy.

Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.

Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.

To call the police is a really big deal because you don't snitch - that's the culture you grow up in.