I was never crying and shaking like the Beliebers do, but I understand the idolizing of a hero.

For someone like Daniel Radcliffe, it’s really fun to go against your image. He’s such a goody-two-shoes in Harry Potter. I just wanted him to throw off the gloves and be weird and quirky.

A director is what a director wants to be. If you want to force something, you can fight to the death and maybe get fired, but it's your job to help push things along.

I just feel so lucky to tell stories and make up stories and share them with people.

Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.

I loved 'The Social Network.' I think it's one of those movies that will stand the test of time.

I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you have to have reels for a movie.

You're never going to satisfy everybody.

Once you see dance as a weapon - and everyone has a different weapon - it makes dance really interesting.

I love 3-D, and for certain movies it can be really great, and for certain movies it can be poison.

I love 'Dr Strangelove.

We always vilify what we don't understand.

All Knowledge is dangerous

a grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't realize how easily he can be fooled.

Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.

I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.

I'd choose truth over cake but I'd try to find a way to get both to be honest.

Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many.

Truth is never far behind.

Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.

I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.