I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.

Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it.

It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

Music stops you from thinking.

I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets harder.

Confidence is not what others think about you, it's what you think about yourself

You can count your days or make your days count for something. The choice is yours.

....But i couldn't. Was nowhere near ready for a committed relationship, and it wouldn't be fair. I needed time - to become the right man for a woman like you.

If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.

I once Experimented with marijuna, next thing I know I'm waking up with blood on my hands.......and not my own blood.

Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point.

Madonna has a very unique style and comes up constantly with these great songs.

Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself.

Family, community, and the realm of the private self - your mind, body, and spirit - are all important sources of the inspiration, support, and ideas we all need to lead the lives we want.

I guess the most famous person I was so extremely exhilarated by being with - and actually sat next to her at a luncheon at the White House - was Mrs. Obama.