I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films.

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

It takes understanding to be outstanding

Can you drown in grief? She turned away sharply, angry with her own frailty. She had no time for the luxury of self-pity.

Rich people think long term. they balance their spending on enjoyment today with investing fore freedom tomorrow.

The Mission is completed...this is why you die!

In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.

The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.

There were days when I would say, 'God, I can't be without Leo'. He was my rock. We were such a team, nothing could break us, nothing could come near us.

You're beautiful, Roza. So beautiful it hurts me.