What is an ending? There's no such thing. Death is the only ending.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

I never knew what I wanted, except that it was something I hadn't seen before.

[The Player is] not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.

Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

If you have a child who is seven feet tall, you don't cut off his head or his legs. You buy him a bigger bed and hope he plays basketball.

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

I have never made a movie that's attracted a 14-year-old boy.

The most powerful force that can transform an enemy into a friend is simple kindness.

The prophets who spoke to their generations for God did not please and conform

The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to do something that will appeal at home and abroad.

The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

Every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure.

Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be

Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.

Why does the left protest and the right doesn't? The left is a hate group.

How do you tell somebody how to find what they're looking for when ten years ago you came from the same place, and have yet to find it yourself?