Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.

A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.

What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene.

I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.

Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.

I began to consider the fact that maybe history is actually the great destroyer of free will.

[I]n America, wrongs can be righted, warriors can wear skirts and blouses, and the bravest heartsmay beat in girlsonly five feet tall.

Where there is religion (religious following), there are no worries and where there are worries, there is no religion there.

The values of a nation can be made from the pulpit of the land.

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

She would not have put herself out so much to say so little.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.

Sometimes wearing a mask is the best way to show our true selves.

Still the mind. Inhale peace. Let go of worries. Exhale stress. Notice the breath. Connect to all. Embrace calm.