I'm really so singular, I am only able to work on one thing at a time. I really am.

I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make.

I’ve always been better at informing the audience through images than through words, but I took on a script that was so dialogue intensive, that the words had to do all the informing.

You have to understand where the camera needs to me. There were times where you were suddenly aware where the cameras were, then you were in a different place and it didn't feel like the same movie.

I've never been happy doing stock work; I've never been happy thinking that I haven't changed something.

I'm Jewish. Went to a Jewish school.

I don't put on my best clothes to make a film, my Sunday best.

I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that filmmaker, but I'm just not.

Ensuring possibility is kept alive is imperative.

It's Friday and I'm ready to swing. Pick up my girls and hit the party scene.

Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world

It’s important for people to know that I’m still focused on football... I’m handling my business to get ready for the next season.

He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.

My wife wanted to call our daughter Sue, but I felt that in our family that is usually a verb.

I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.

There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.