I have never made a movie that's attracted a 14-year-old boy.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

I never knew what I wanted, except that it was something I hadn't seen before.

[The Player is] not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.

Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

If you have a child who is seven feet tall, you don't cut off his head or his legs. You buy him a bigger bed and hope he plays basketball.

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

What is an ending? There's no such thing. Death is the only ending.

The hardest part of any yoga practice is rolling out your mat.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles but most of them never happened.

Jihadis have a better bureaucracy than India.

Love you..." Henry-" Always..." Oh God oh God-" World enough..." No!" And time..." Henry!

When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square. Very unattractive.

How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.

Just like a caravan of camels walking in the desert, be durable against the adversities of life and walk with decisive steps.

It's a real man who can go out with a woman who's taller than he is. That's an alpha male right there.

Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.

Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.