I'd like to give the audience what they've always wanted to see and also I want to give the audience what they've never seen. It's these two things I'm striving for.

I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films; I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell. Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.

Initially, before I came to Hollywood, I thought that the language barrier would be the biggest challenge, but I realized that actors all around the world, regardless of language, are all the same.

I respect a woman who can respect me when I'm not around.

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.

I'll keep my lips to myself, if that's what you want.

Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

When the skies and the oceans are clean again. Then we shall be free.

Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.

Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.