I don't read the news anymore because I know it would make me depressed. So instead, I make beauty. I make movies.

Most of us want to live in harmony and peace and be good to others. Right now, however, the world is in a very turbulent time, and our leadership has gone crazy.

A movie should entertain you in a way that will also open your mind. I think movies are tools to enrich your experience.

Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive.

As a filmmaker, you take reality and you tell a story from it.

I feel like my job is to give hope. The world is in a dark place and we are living in somewhat of a nightmare. So I want to make films to give hope.

As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog.

This is what art can do in our time. Unite people, and give them hope.

When I was younger, I did dark movies. It was a reflection of what I saw around me.

The time you save is just what makes the difference between trivia and culture.

Expenditure rises to meet income.

I remember my seventh-grade chemistry teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I thought, 'Hmm. OK.' That gave me motivation to prove her wrong.

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.

You cannot lead America to a positive tomorrow with revenge on one's mind. Revenge is so incredibly negative.

And the way he looked at her was so intense, his big green eyes probing into her, like he approved of everything she held inside.

I need an audience way more than an audience needs me.

Humid seal of soft affections, Tend'rest pledge of future bliss, Dearest tie of young connections, Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.

The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.