Even the heart in time may grow cold.

It is the easiest thing in the world to go to astray, but always difficult to return.

It will not do, my friend, to grant an easy indulgence to natural appetite and desire, for they ever seek to be our masters.

Let's follow our curiosity & our joy.

Be kind to people and don’t judge, for you do not know what demons they carry and what battles they are fighting.

I have a lot of amazing women, you know, women in my life who have been an example for me of what not to do.

I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."

There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side.

Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.

People are complicated; you put two of them together and it's generally a mess, but hopefully a beautiful mess.

My focus is not merely a beautiful city, but a city that's made beautiful on the parameters of good health and cleanliness

A big mistake a lot of filmmakers do is they like, "We cut our whole ending to a Rolling Stones song." You better find a new ending then, because unless you have $2 million for that song.

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. They long for the good old days when people read serious novels.