I guess my enthusiasm kind of rubs off on people.

Archaeology is the study of humanity itself, and unless that attitude towards the subject is kept in mind archaeology will be overwhelmed by impossible theories or a welter of flint chips.

Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while.

I'm so picky. People hate going to the movies with me.

If people are troubled by their view, they ought to offer these New Orleanians, and black and poor people in the places like the Lower Ninth Ward around the country, a reason to believe otherwise.

Love is the softest rose in the soul's garden.

A bad friend is is worse than an enemy, an enemy you can see and avoid, but to detect an insincere friend is hard

I am a daylight atheist.

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

I want to do everything in the world with you.

I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

When you do a television show in the States, you get the pilot, and then it's the great unknown. That's the way it is. It's this great leap of faith. It's the Russian roulette of art.

But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life’s business.

And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe. And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.