It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.

Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them.

There were eleven votes for "guilty." It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.

It's very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And no matter where you run into it, prejudice obscures the truth.

Do you remember your first real teacher? Your first real teacher is your first sorrow, your first crying!

Writing is a solitary occupation, except for Presidential speeches and sitcoms.

My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I knew that I was an unformed actor, and I didn't want to develop bad habits.

It's so much easier to make a movie about someone who is so likeable that you just want to get out of the way.

We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.

The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.

Even the most elitist director or author who claims that he doesn't care if his works are seen or not, then I have to think that he's either a liar or a hypocrite.

I am a shark, the ground is my ocean, and most people can't even swim.

All you have to do in life is be passionate and enthusiastic and you will have a wonderful life.

People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself.