If you understand what makes him tick-what is magic for him- then you can understand anyone

This is a place of true imagination.

Time is measured in meaning

there is no game in her smile. There is warmth and kindness and something that looks like steel. You can tell me anything, her eyes say, because I will see the beauty in everything you say.

Your worst dungeon might be the room with the most windows.

You must work hard to get what you want.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

I am totally in favor of trade. But I want trade deals for our country that create more jobs and higher wages for American workers.

We get so involved with the latest craze or having the latest car or the most high-powered house that we lose touch with that which makes us happy - what makes us happy are quiet states of mind.

Always wait for the trigger. The trigger is the final part of the puzzle, the reason you want to shoot.

I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction that I can understand and relate to. He's a very international writer.

Every director works differently but one thing's important: they must have a vision. If they don't have a vision I don't care how they work.

All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.

If you don't root for the Dodgers, you might not get into heaven.

Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.