It doesn't matter how good your film is; if people don't know about it, they won't go and see it.

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. It really is public brainwashing and misinformation.

Many of us had this idea of doing independent film, of making personal, relevant films, as opposed to Hollywood fluff. I directed a few.

The problem for independent filmmakers is that huge companies control all the promotion, all the advertising. Hollywood films' advertising budgets are as large as their shooting budgets.

A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously.

The problem of media/politics is multifold. Many things are out of whack.

My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma

We will see beauty in the outer world when we are able to see beauty within ourselves. And this is the best thing we can do for ourselves and for the universe.

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.

Those who love most, see most.

All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.

I think you have to work very hard and dedicate yourself and have the respect of your teammates before you're about to go out and just try to take a game over by yourself.

The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.

For me, there's still plenty of ground to be covered, as I get older. It's worked out great so far. I take it one job at a time. I'll just keep my eyes toward the next job and see where it takes me.

Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience