Being politically correct means always having to say you're sorry. Believe me, the power and pleasure and the emotion of this moment is a constant speed of light.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.

Today cinema can place all its talent, all its technology in the service of reanimating what it itself contributed to liquidating. It only resurrects ghosts, and it itself is lost therein.

You cannot avoid what you fear because what you fear is inside of you.

Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.

I sacrificed six years in L.A. I did my job out here. I made contacts and did the work I had to do.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they are, but as they could be and should be.

The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

No amount of time in front of the mirror will make you as attractive as having the Holy Ghost with you.