There are no “old” movies-only movies you have already seen and ones you haven't.

Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.

The criterion for judging whether a movie is successful or not is time.

One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to.

If filmmakers are ignorant of the past, they laborto re-invent the wheel in every picture. You sit and think, 'Well,we're back to 1903 here.'

Cher is one of the most talented women I've ever met. She's got depth and emotion that haven't even been touched.

Without equanimity, we might give love to others only in an effort to bridge the inevitable and healthy space that always exists between two people.

Democracy is fine in politics. It should stay there, and we need more of it. But its political virture is no reason to practice it in the garden.

All fear is imaginary, reality is its antidote.

Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United States.

I can't leave England.

A pupil is a great resource.

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

But that which is useful is the better.

It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.

I know it's my fault I should've gave more.