In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

I think people are universal.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

She had her addictions and one of them was reading.

Got a lot of sinful idears--but they seem kinda sensible.

Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.

My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

While Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines...

Foolishness pours out of an open mouth.... but wisdom sneaks in through the ears.

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

The worst of all hobbies are those that people think they can get money at. They shoot their money down like corn out of a sack then.

You can't really move forward if you don't heal the past and identify and address the fact that you had a problem and in some cases still have issues. That has to be dealt with.

An affirmative thought is 100 times more powerful than a negative one.