Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.

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.

Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.

People cannot live forever, but memories can. Never pass up an opportunity to create awesome memories with your special ones.

The grain-fields went up the hillsides. Now as we went higher there was a wind blowing the grain.

Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.

I want to be apart of something that can only be explained by the hand of God!

I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963.

The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology.

If a woman is wearing the burqa, it's not her wish. It's more that she feels secure from the Taliban, secure from acid if she were to show her face.

Know and understand that there will be challenges and difficult times. Don't try to avoid them. Welcome them. Gratefully.

When you have an intense game, you're going to have arguments. I have no problem with it. I think it's healthy.