Having been in the military myself, there is an awful moment when you're in this moment of conflict.

And for the people who promote drones as the answer to everything, there is a danger from being distanced from the reality of the ugly mess of war.

Hany Abu-Assad was sitting next to me, and his film 'Paradise Now' had won the Golden Globe. He said to me at the Globes, 'Paradise now, talk to you later.' [laughs] I gave him a big hug for that.

One reads many scripts, and some of them are good and some of them are not, but every now and then, one really grabs you. You simply can't put it down.

I am a story-teller working with a craft. My job is to use my craft - which is a different thing to my race - and tell a story well.

What about thinking of happiness as a right instead than as a gift?

This isn’t Soviet Russia. This is America we’re talking about. For God’s sake, this is New York City.

Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life - but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you want?

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.

Beautiful people do not just happen

When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

A wise man once told me that only by leaving someone good can you meet someone better.

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

I think you know that when an American stays away from New York too long something happens to him. Perhaps he becomes a little provincial, a little dead and afraid.

I think we have to do something about the environment and how we are polluting the planet.