I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.

My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.

But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.

Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world.

It is not about whether you have free will, rather it is about whether you have enough experience to make the best possible wilful decision in the current moment of life.

Windisch closes his eyes. He feels his eyes. He feels his eyeballs in his hands. His eyes without a face.

Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe.

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms.

I'm looking for someone to share in an adventure.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

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