As a child I had terrible asthma.

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.

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.

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.

A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long a comedy is played out by an incomparable actor.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

That it's a worldwide thing that families are better off.

Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.

A major part of the meaning of life is contained in the very process of discovering it.

She just got out of the hospital. Why don't you go gossip behind her back, like decent people?

The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.

There's always something that draws you away from the original script.

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.