I happen to like vampires more than zombies.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

Don't fight with the pillow but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.

May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door.

The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.

You are more powerful than you think.