You learn quite a bit about your film from test screening audiences. With both comedies and movies that are intense, you need to calibrate the film and see how audiences react.

I think that man is conditioned to violence.

I want to have a movie where people's eyes are glued to the screen, not when they're running from the screen.

No matter how high buildings you make, your soul needs to be where it belongs.

Almost everything you think is sacred, good and decent, is a lie and an all-out assault against truth and decency.

Once that ship has sailed don't hold on to the anchor

I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.

It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.

...cells are not controlled by genes and neither are we.

Every child is your child.

We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few.

Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.