I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.

Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea.

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.

Beauty doesn't have anything to do with prettiness. Beauty has to do with something else; it gets into an area where words can't go.

Style is the most ephemeral thing I know. It's not about how effective you are it's about how you are effective.

My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

Sometimes other people have better ideas.

It's interesting that there are places that words can't get to.

My education was an education by movies.

Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor.

If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that's genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice.

The objective is to pluck the geese in such a manner as to obtain the greatest number of feathers with the least amount of hissing.

I'm an honorary consul general so I have inviolability.

I vividly remember bowling 20 + games a day, 2 or 3 times a week.

Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I don't see how you could stand it psychologically.

We have to shine a bright light on horrific moments in society if we're going to create a better world for our children.

Times were so hard it was difficult to feed and lodge humans, much less animals.

Words are the legs of the mind; they bear it about, carry It from point to point, bed it down at night, and keep it off the ground and out of the marsh and mists.

But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.

Think of it as your ticket to change the world.