Casting the right actor for the right part is some unspoken thing between the two of you to communicate.

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.

Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it.

It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

Music stops you from thinking.

Despite all the other factors that had contributed to my fate, in the end it was my decision that destroyed my life. And all the hurt I was enduring now was my doing. The blame rested solely with me.

Our glass train, on fragile tracksBeneath bombs that fall like the floodTo wash away the shards—But all this sorrow will recedeAnd we will leaveTwo by twoAnd until then, I will only think of you.

A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.

I've married a few people I shouldn't have but haven't we all?

That which arises dependent on something is not in the least that thing, neither is it different from it. Therefore, it is neither permanent or nothing.

The downfall of democratic institutions in Russia doesn't add to the self-confidence of either [Vladimir] Putin or his friends, as the loss of power could lead to repercussions in Russian society.

I thought she'd make some comment about the bloodthirsty gods chasing us, but when she finally found her voice, she said, "That boy kissed you!" Leave it to Liz to have her priorities straight.

Creativity is a yearning for immortality

I'm so lazy I've got a smoke alarm with a snooze button.

The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.