A prototype is always more expensive than anything.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.

I don't think any of us are normal people.

Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.

I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.

The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal.

You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song.

I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.

Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.

God accentuate our mind with exact words to write.

There are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all.

I read my books aloud before they were published.

I don't worry about playing basketball; that comes natural. I just want to have fun. David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Michael Jordan: this is like spring break in the ghetto.

Mostly, two miles an hour is good going.

We do not die with those we mourn.

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

The American people will not tolerate a clean increase in the debt limit.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.