It's more important you learn what to make movies about than how to make movies

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Itis our ability to have an insight into people thatgives us the power to predict the future.

... the kiss, the bodily surrender which would seem natural and but moderately attractive...

Ideas can come while reading a good novel.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

When you're comfortable in your own skin, you look beautiful, regardless of any flaws.

The score will take care of itself when you take care of the effort that precedes the score.

The worst part is doubt. When you doubt yourself, which we are taught to do, you get lost.

I am humble enough to recognize that I have made mistakes, but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are.

Sure. I've never dated a woman of anything like that, But, I mean, I think it's much more the person that you fall in love with – and why would you close yourself off to fifty percent of the people?

That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.