Always get to the set or the location early, so that you can be all alone and draw your inspiration for the blocking and the setups in private and quiet.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

To play a wrong note is insignificant

I loved you, you know... It's not my fault the world is what it is.

So age after age — will it be soon, O Lord? —Beneath the scalpel of nature and art, Our spirit screams, our flesh depletes itself, Giving birth to an organ for the sixth sense.("The Sixth Sense")

When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood God blessed the green island he saw it was good. The Emerald of Europe it sparkled and shone In the ring of this world the most precious stone.

Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.

When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why are you doing this? In a sense, that's what I was after: I was after the head-scratching.

Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.

Pakistan would be confident after their series win over England. The series will be a very close and good contest and if all the players play to their potential we're in for some wonderful cricket.

I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

Where you are tender, you speak your plural.