There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

Big or small, be ready to do your part when you dare to dream and you will be rewarded with success from the Universe.

Keep your chin up. Eventually, you will meet someone who cares about your opinion. I'm so sorry I'm not her.

The story is uneven in its progression.

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

It was as if we had beaten a country, more than just a football team.

It's casual Friday, which means that at the White House, they're casually going through everybody's phone calls and records.

I don't know how you can look back with regret if you're at a moment when everything seems fine.

One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.