Have a go. Anybody can do it.

Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.

I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

Film-making is a physically hard job.

I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise … It's one of my movies. It's a pretty odd feeling.

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

Happy am I, for every time I meditate on governments, I always find new reasons in my inquiries for loving my own country.

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

I don’t ever want to be in a hurry. I want to enjoy the moments.

A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.

The kingdom of heaven is comprised of the broken, the fatherless, the poor, the starving. Nothing that could create good ratings for NBC.

Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.

I hate it when people lose it, there's nothing left because they're not interesting, they're boring, I hate it, and especially smack, people on smack are the most boring in the world.

I'm always working in this universe - whether picturing hamburger joints, Virgin Marys, domestic scenes - using these "vacant-faced" women as a medium to question universal truths.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?