I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.

Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.

There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.

Rabbi, the Sacred Teacher, Jesus Christ.

I think women are closer to God than we are. They walk right out there like they know what they're doing.

I really want readers to put themselves into the shoes of each character. So the opening lines are an orienting technique: this is where you are, this is who you are. Go.

What if you take a human mind, and upload it into one of these machines?

If you watch the news, you see politicians use human vulnerabilities to get in and earn people's trust.

If you accept the institutional lunacy, then the policies are rational.

God's plan makes you sing about resurrection when your hanging on a cross.

Give, expecting nothing there of.

One time a reporter asked me what my worst quality was. I looked him in the eyes then punched him in the face. I kind of felt bad about it later, but he didn't need to be rude.

Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.