I wouldn't presume to be God's point of view.

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 loved you before all of this. When there was nothing. When there was only a single atom in the night sky.

We create our own enemies

Oh, and she told me that men want only one thing. And on that note, I must give praise and thanks to the powers that be. I don't want much else from them either.

War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.

ID cards do not tell the police who is about to commit a suicide bombing.

A good home must be made, not bought.

No one is so eager to gain new experiences as he who doesn't know how to make use of the old ones.

It's just one of those things. Everybody wants to do it, but it's really difficult. People had to wait for "Indy 4" for a decade, and the reason is because of the people involved.

I would appoint judges that interpreted the Constitution rather than invented it, understood the difference between being a judge and being a legislator.