And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

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.

If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.

Decisions create success, and the quality of your decisions will determine the quality of your life.

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

The key is to make sure you are doing the "right things" before you worry about doing things "right".

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Believe in God like the sun up in the sky, see science can tell us how but it can't tell us why. I seen a baby cry then seconds later she laughed, the beauty of life the pain never lasts.

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

You can't stop insane people from doing insane things with insane laws. That's insane!

After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.

Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty.