I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.

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.

Loss of hope is root of distress.

Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.

Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.

When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think.

It's part of the fun of it to work with strong personalities.

Palestinian people are in love with life.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars.

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.

Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.