I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.

We crash into each other just so we can feel something.

We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

You have to be careful of the advice you take.

You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come out. If there's a half dozen, that would be a big day.

Well, I'm so sorry that I can't be the right kind of monster for you, Bella.

If you must love your neighbor as yourself it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage.

For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

There's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.

The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.

The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!

Should I eat this or should I eat this? Well, I'll have to eat both!

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.