I heard that Trump said even smelling a book makes him feel tired.

I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store.

Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.

Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.

It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.

We should bloom like a flower without reservation or restriction, but with all our energy, power, and great love for this world.

Expectation is the greatest impediment to living, running ahead to tomorrow, it loses today.

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

Obama is huge in the polls these days. His popularity is soaring. Even conservatives are coming around. 30 percent of them now believe Obama deserves a Green Card.

I'd like to create a role on Broadway. That would really heighten my senses.

It is often said that it's a man's world; we must change this fact and create this: It's a human's world!

Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.

If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat.

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.