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

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.

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.

If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.

When you learn to love unconditionally and deeply, you gain the power of love.

...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.

It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.

Never throw out anyone.

I get cold really quickly, but I don't care. I like weather. I never understand why people move someplace so that they can avoid weather.

I do have a large audience overseas, and I want to continue to be an international artist.

He longs to give us a magnificent reward. He knows that suffering is the only means of preparing us to know Him as He knows Himself, and to become ourselves divine.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he's good or bad, I think you're starting out in the wrong direction. I think we're all good and we're all bad.