I try to be straight when I communicate with my audiences through a film. I'm not sure whether I have been successful. I don't watch my film once they're in theaters.

There's no such thing as "an auteurist filmmaker." Every film directors is an auteur. We only make films that we do because we cannot put on clothes that don't fit us.

I never make a film with a message in mind. I'm more interested in the characters; how they are related to each other and the situation they're in.

The way people respond to struggles or express their feelings in difficult situations are very different. I like imagining how characters would react in certain situations.

There's no such thing as being cool. People who pretend to be cool have more emotional layers.

I only see things that I shouldn't have done when I watch my film again.

Be good.See good.Choose good.It's a no-brainer.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

A man can seem to have many friends yet know little of friendship.

We must win the war on poverty by enlisting the greatest weapon ever invented - free enterprise

Maybe I'd be in a different place in my career if I'd had that 10-year plan, a lot of people went at it with this voracity that I never had. My only voracity was to have fun and to be in the mix.

Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.

I find that the British audience listens and they accept the performer for its value, value as a singer, as a vocalist, value as a performer. You're only accepted if you're good.

Dessert doesn't count if you eat under an assumed identity.

The difference between a drunk and a alcoholic is that a drunk doesn't have to attend all those meetings.