If I'm lucky, in my wildest dreams I can make a picture every three years.

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films.

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

He grabbed my chin, pulling me towards him. 'In my dreams, ' he told me, his voice still as hard and cold as an iceberg, 'more interesting things happen. Things that involve the two of us'.

How much longer will you wait until you take a chance on yourself?

Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.

Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.

I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.

Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication.

If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.

If you're humble and hardworking, opportunities will arise for you.

If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to using that subhuman level against us. We reap whatever we sow.

We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture.