I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.

I think that’s the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you’re never going to grow up and you’re never going to be ready. And you may, as well, do things now, don’t wait

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.

Every day is the opportunity for a better tomorrow.

Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.

I’m honoured when Africa recognises me

My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.

Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.

What is in one is in the whole, and therefore, ultimately, Each soul is responsible for the whole world.

America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.

It seemed she was in a cathedral—if, that is, the earth itself were to dream a cathedral into being over thousands of years of water weeping through stone.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

...The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world!

We till shadowed days are done, We must weep and sing Duty's conscious wrong, The Devil in the clock

And I will make it felony to drink small beer.