The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.

When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

Confidence is essential, but ego is not.

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

You think about taking audiences on a journey.

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.

It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.

Rumors of coal's demise may have been greatly exaggerated.

We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought, and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won.

A saint is a sinner who keeps on trying.

The mind that is full of God is empty of anxiety. Are you troubled, restless, sleepless? Then think of God more!

Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.

I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

I dont partake in assembly-line convenience. I dont say that killing things is bad while I hire people to kill things for me.

I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.