I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

I think our life is a series of adventures.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun.

One day they will invent a time machine and, like the internet, it will be used primarily for boning.

Good manners are a sign of strength.

I've been producing for 13 years. I've made a string of joyful movies with positive messages about comedy, love and romance.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

What you do today determines who you will be tomorrow.

The aim of Wikileaks is to achieve just reform around the world and do it through the mechanism of transparency.

I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.

It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are.

Yes I do like children ... Girl children...about eighteen or twenty.