I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films.

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

There's a religious basis to their [Bush and Chaney] kind of conservatism. It's rooted in a kind of fundamentalism. I'm afraid of that. I don't like that idea. I think all extremism is suspect.

To find love, be loving first.

By reading older books we get a taste of the conversation of Heaven.

...dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun.

Photography is the story I fail to put into words.

I'll paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad.

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

What is for me socialism is exactly the opposite of a bureaucratically-managed culture.

Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.

By cool Siloam's shady rill How sweet the lily grows! How sweet the breath beneath the hill Of Sharon's dewy rose!

Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest sporting event in the world.