The state of mind which I put myself when I tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. And I welcome that because it helps me.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

The sh*t's gonna splatter, start buggin, yo..." Mencheres to Cat

Life punishes those who come too late.

Hannah in the show is enormous, like a Hilary Duff of TV. I hope everyone really likes her. She's a great person!

The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

A transition is taking place in Egypt. In my judgement, there is no going back. I think the old expression, "They're not going to put the toothpaste back in the tube on this one.

We did not hope for the same things, but we all hoped.

I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it's all quite self-interested: You can protect things.