I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.

Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.

There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.

I followed Taylor everywhere. I was always trying to catch up after him or go with him.

Is this some manly bonding thing I can't be a part of? Are you getting matching haircuts?

Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.

The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.

There are many other possibilities more enlightening than the struggle to become the local doctor's most affluent ulcer case.

Do not be afraid to be the saints of the new mellineum!

I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio.

In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.