Could you double-check the envelope?

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.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

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.

He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands.

Fasting is a weapon in a Christian's spiritual arsenal and you need to know when to use it

The world is my country the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god the future of man is my heaven.

Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare.

The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

In romance we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.