Your movie should lull people into a place of openness and vulnerability. If it is just a diatribe, it's never going to work.

There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.

It's an important part of being a member of society to know what's happening in the world and to know where you fall in it and what you can do about it.

When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again.

I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.

Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.

If you really want to tell someone you love them, you don't just go and blurt it out. There's a dance. And your movie does that.

I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.

You only have so much time in life so everything you do needs to mean something to you.

You're always against the clock. But really just fighting for quality.

The apartments are made for eels.

If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be.

It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

If they don't let me coach, they might as well take me to the Lexington cemetery.

You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.

A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

There is a very big forgiving side in me that keeps me very light in my heart and happy.

The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind.

It's hard to get laughs when you're new.