I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.

Non sense discussions, have you ever thought that most discussions which you have are useless, pointess?? It's true and that's why I never go out.

If you have butterflies in your stomach ask them into your heart.

I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art.

Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling.

What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.

The holiness of love inspired ordinary men and women to act like angels. It lifted them on wings closer to God.

The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.

So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.