Chicago my favourite American city. I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.

Failure's a natural part of life.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

The knowledge of all things is possible

When you think on the powerful truths of Scripture, God uses His Word to change your way of thinking.

Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.

Never forget that to forgive yourself is to release trapped energy that could be doing good work in the world.

No fantasies, I don't think. Most of my fantasies have already been realized.

I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.

New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression.

Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed.

They talked about teamwork. That's all it is. It's about team effort. No particular player trying to outshine each other. Playing unselfishly and believe. Good things will come.

Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years.