And that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us in terms of our value judgement and by example.

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.

I believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

Accept the life that comes. Work and strive, but accept. Don't force the world to be the one you dream.

Reading can break us out of the tunnel vision of the narrow specialty and lead us into many intriguing and important avenues of thought.

You know, sometimes I even envy myself.

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.

My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration

We must cultivate a universal responsibility toward each other and extend it to the planet that we have to share

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

While you remain at home your hair is at the hairdresser's; you take out your teeth at night and sleep tucked away in a hundred cosmetics boxes - even your face does not sleep with you.

Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably by one's forebears