Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

Married couples must pray and study the Bible daily.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

I had never held a baby in my life. I was one of those women - people would say, "Do you want to hold my baby?" and I was like "No ... "

Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life's problems when you count them as joy.

He's managed to make himself something highly unusual for a man at this stage of his career: unclassifiable. Unpredictable. Tom Jones is no joke

I think that if there was one mistake that I took away, it would affect the man that I am today.

Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight.

One can only imagine how effective justice might be if admissible in a court of law.

Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're giving none away.

My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.