There's a religious basis to their [Bush and Chaney] kind of conservatism. It's rooted in a kind of fundamentalism. I'm afraid of that. I don't like that idea. I think all extremism is suspect.

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films.

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

One reason we're not winning the fight against depression is that our available treatments leave so many in partial recovery limbo.

Pushing the boundaries and uniting the world: That’s what Mars One is about.

Sudden Light I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the light around the shore.

Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate.

Listen to the inner voice that allows you to be you!

We are obsessed with image. I don't think we should take it that seriously.

The pilot is easy. It is 30 minutes, 20 minutes. It is not that much to juggle.

It's better being completely ridiculous than unbelievably boring.

It is my job to make runs for the country and win. That is the job I have to do.

Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport's green.