It never stops, accepting that fact is difficult. I took some time out for life.

[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

I took some time out for life.

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.

You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.

I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!

A lot of things just aren't true any more.

I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.

One kind deed is more beautiful than a thousand good intentions.

A code is like love, it has created with clear intentions at the beginning, but it can get complicated.

Big cities can have big hearts.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

We want the world's largest economies, including the United States, to be part of a global arrangement. An approach in which only some are committed to acting cannot be environmentally effective.

You’re in competition with everyone.

When people can't use you, they ridicule what you represent. I was lucky that I understood that, because when one does not understand that, it is very easy to be broken and to be subdued.

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.