I usually set aside a lot of time in advance of a movie with important roles for kids to search, but when you have great ones, they can be a real ace in the hole.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.

I don't think any of us are normal people.

Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.

I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.

The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal.

You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song.

I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.

Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.

pada akhirnya yang pergi akan kembali, entah pada pelukan, atau pada masing-masing kenangan

But despite the fact that Reardan is a tiny town, people can still be strangers to each other.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

It isn't that black people are protected in America by the left; it's that black liberals are protected just as female liberals are protected, not conservatives.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

I hope one of my fans has one of your kids shot: and blames it on acid, prozac, and slipknot.

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

Surrender to what you know and you'll know more.

In a place like Afghanistan where the society is completely segregated, women have access to women. Men cannot always photograph women and cannot get the access that I get.

Asking God for a specific thing will amount to limiting God to a specific answer.