I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.

Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.

Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.

Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers.

The world would be a poorer place without Doctor Who.

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.

We shouldn't be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel.

Face adversity head on in your training and you will conquer it smoothly in your fight.

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.

The style of music that we're playing, this progressive metal style, has always been an upstream battle for us. We don't usually get a lot of commercial exposure.

Anyone who questions my commitment, doesn't know me.

Don King is a hip exploiter, an intelligent flesh peddler

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.

Sometimes what you lose in the time it takes to let an actor do something that you don't like as a director, you gain in not shutting them down creatively by telling them their idea sucks.