I think ultimately that sense of hope is something that even as a little kid I was able to kind of grab onto.

I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue.

If you cast an all-white movie and it doesn't do well, no one will say it's because you had an all-white cast.

I feel like every time you get to make a sequel, it's a privilege. It means that people have embraced it and want the journey to continue.

We ultimately get to know ourselves a little bit better by pushing forward.

It is very important to support what you believe in.

There's an anxiety of wanting to please the studios. You want to prove to them that you can do it and sometimes you might jump at a project that you're not totally passionate about.

If you put forth a really diverse cast and you fight for it and it doesn't do well - and it may fail for other reasons - you're gone because you stuck your neck out for that decision.

Many people have stopped growing. When you stop growing, you stop living. Many have stopped living and now just bide their time before it becomes official.

If it is our destiny to be hit by the train, we will be hit by the train. The only thing we can change is how the train turns us into a hamburger.

If you have an elegant stance, a noble stance, an ethical stance or a scientific stance, you will not be appreciated by the inelegant, by the ignoble, by the unethical or by the unscientific people!

And I always say that to the children: “You are the greatest thing I ever did in my life!

In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.

As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.

Men take more pains to mask than mend.

The real friend is another self.

So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.

We dont need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.