It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it.

For ya, love, I will be anything ya want... even a potato.

Try and endeavor almost have the same interpretation, but in one meaningful difference. Who doesn't try to get his goals, should endeavor more than just try. (Tora-Bora mountains)

Those who have few things to attend to are great babblers for the less men think the more they talk.

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.

Those who feed on rumors are small, suspicious souls.

Financial peace isn't the acquisition of stuff. It's learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can't win until you do this.

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.