Even if I sometimes have some somewhat negative thoughts, for instance, if I see them in somebody else's movie, I feel jealous and possessive.

I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s.

The actors have confidence in me to let me lead them to unexpected things.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Meditation is not about what's happening, it is about how we're relating to what's happening.

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done.

Prayer is, for me, like that - a state of being together with God. It's not usually triggered by liturgy or special needs. It's more like what the Bible instructs us to do: Pray without ceasing.

I do still love you. I don't love you enough to be able to give you the things we dreamed about and planned.

You haven't seen untidiness until you've seen a room where gravity has failed twice in different directions.

There's a script, then you're going to shoot the script and then you cut that and then that's the end of the film. And that's never really been how I've seen it.

My proudest accomplishment is my daughter Ella. Because she is a great person, great personality. She not really my accomplishment, she is her own, but I had something to do with it.

Because every day of your life was written on God's calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual significance.