I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.

Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.

Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.

Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers.

The world would be a poorer place without Doctor Who.

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids.

If you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don't bump into the other actors.

We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.

Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

Making music is a wonderful way to spend your life, but do it for the love before a career. Enjoy it.

Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.

I closed my eyes, held my breath and then everything went black.

If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel.