Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.

Is Europe going to be breaking? I don't think so. I think the euro will stay. I think at the end of the day Europeans will find the solutions in order to hold Europe together.

I was lucky enough to be down at the studio the day John Paul Jones came down.

The idea of taking off my shoes and trying on all these clothes is so exhausting, I just leave.

I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.

The most important things in life are intangible.

In this town [L.A], I guess it takes homosexuals to be discriminated against in order for someone to finally step UP and wanna do something.

Therefore tremble, O man, at any power thou hast, except thou usest it for God. Art thou strong in body; who hath thy strength? God, or thy lusts?

To engage in a battle, one must know oneself, believe in oneself, and overcome one's own obstacle