When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.

I can't get myself when I'm not punctual. If I'm late for an appointment, even a bit, I don't feel good for a whole day.

Media scrutiny is a great trademark of the American political arena.

I prefer, and it turns out to be the truth, that I always have in my movies an ensemble of actors, but not just one individual doing the whole movie.

War is the highest form of modern art.

It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.

We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.

It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.