What happens when these young men and women come home so scarred and so wounded? We are ignoring that fact. We're just shoving them under the carpet.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.

We crash into each other just so we can feel something.

We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

You have to be careful of the advice you take.

You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come out. If there's a half dozen, that would be a big day.

Les rêves sont seuls les réalités de la vie.

Your pride will be uprooted when a person who insults you appears to be your benefactor. The person who insults should be considered a benefactor, instead people get depressed when they are insulted.

Ultimate meaning is meaningless. Meaning meaning means everything else.

Forgetting isn’t the key to moving on. Remembering is, because only once we’ve remembered can we forget.

There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.

I acted my heart out.

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.

My directing is really weird. Everything is based on whether it's working or not. I don't try to fix something if it's not working, I'll just change it.

Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.