You can't trust your memory. You change it to suit yourself.

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.

It is not how old you are but how you are old.

Angelina Jolie is my style inspiration.

I believe in you, even though I be outnumbered.

A little quiet reflection will remind me that yes to God always leads in the end to joy.

Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use literature to voice their opinions.

Peace follows love energy like a shadow.

Donald Trump supporters are as opposed to Hillary Clinton and probably more so than the Republican Party establishment is.

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.