Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.

I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store.

Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.

Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.

You cannot buy trust, you have to earn it.

What is Poverty? A hateful good

Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.

The interesting thing about the African-American experience in this country is that we are sort of a mongrel of people. I mean we're all kind of mixed up.

Presidents have to learn how to adapt. Every president comes into the job, it's different than they expect, they must adapt.

Man is rotten with perfection.

Our life is a work of art. We must seek always to be its artist.

Steph is scary. I've never seen anyone who can shoot the ball off the dribble like him. He got it going in 4th. Every game is different.

When I was a kid and we used to play Post Office, I was the Dead Letter Office.

Twitter. It's not a good sound, is it? If it were worth doing, there would be a better word for it.