From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships.

I'd say to anyone trying to break into the business: Don't just be interested in movies. Be interested in life. Be a person. Be in touch.

We, as film-makers, are privileged. We can make people cry or laugh. We can make them think and feel. It is a great privilege and a great responsibility.

There is a very particular feeling I get when I have the camera in my hand, looking at an actor talk, knowing that what I’m shooting will end up on the screen.

I've been in wars and in riots and hung out of many helicopters in the early days. And there's a detachment that happens when you look through the camera. You're looking for the shot.

Most people, I believe, when they're asked profound questions about their own persona are not really able to enunciate it, because it's a combination of so many things.

I am part of a system which encourages people to buy things and do things which are not to their best interest.

I felt that that experience, because of the responsible nature that I found I acted all during that traumatic time, that I felt that I was a man.

My mother let me know that we're all connected. If some of us become more affluent it's not because we're better or even smarter people - we have a responsibility to ourselves to be a good boy.

Not one Wall Street executive has been charged with crimes since the 2008 financial crash.

If you're making commercials which sell products which are unhealthy or which are unnecessary, I think that you are part of a system.

Love requires commitment, flexibility, transparency and loyalty. Happy Valentines Day 2017.

She's an adversary, but undeniably an equal. Maybe she can bring me back from the beyond. If anyone can do it, I'm beginning to realize it could be her. Like she said, all I have to do is try.

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

Merely being human is morally significant.

I'm afraid I wasn't much of a student, but my casual reading was enormous.

Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed; it is itself a reform.

You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil.

What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.

My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and other things start to come.

I am better at math than spelling.