Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

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.

If you can't see God in all, you can't see God at all

You can't be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for wealth creation

My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)

My girlfriend asked me if I only love her for her body. I said no, baby. Just parts of it.

We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

I never mind contorting myself for a good cause.

But if you parry individuals points - a negative and defensive enterprise - you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true - a positive act.

I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

I do not like onions. It's so funny because I am probably one of the least picky eaters ever. Pretty much any type of new food, I'll try it, I'll eat it. But onions, and pork. Pork and onions.