Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.

There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.

Filmmaking is something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do.

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.

I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932!

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

The grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at someone, only you're the one who gets burned.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains.

As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American.

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.

If you want your voice to be heard, speak from your heart.