Even though I don't necessarily believe in everything that's supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful.

If we just create and don't think about what might happen, that's when we're going to get into trouble.

If you find something you are passionate about, you've got to try. Even if something doesn't quite work out, disappointment is a temporary thing. Regret lasts forever.

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

Our whole economy and society is already being changed by the fact that we have increasing unemployment, mass unemployment and that's what we're facing in the future because of increasing automation.

Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

I think we have a tendency to support the underdogs.

I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.

I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act. It was probably terrible, but I loved it.

In any situation, the ability to see true beauty gives you true freedom.

No garment which distorts the shape and motion of the wearer is beautiful, nor s any garment beautiful which emphasizes more than one or at most two of your sexual characteristics.

Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you’re not failing from time to time, you’re not pushing yourself. And if you’re not pushing yourself, you’re coasting.

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.

But there have been many news reports that water-boarding has been used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is one of the major al Qaeda figures that we have in U.S. custody.

With [Fred] Zinnemann I did A Man For All Seasons. He was my screen godfather. I'm happy to say he was.

I love a challenge, and I think it's when people least expect you to do something that you often do your best.

[My] career was sputtering until [I] did a 360 and got headed in the right direction.

We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy as they have in Iraq, I can tell you quite honestly.