I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.

What kind of person do you wish to be? A part of those who take action, who try the hardest, or of those who go with the flow?

I wanted it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience.

I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think.

Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.

Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

If you pursue an evenhanded policy between a cat and a mouse, do you help the mouse to survive - or allow the cat to eat half the mouse?

The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.

The real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other big businesses.