Making a movie is trying to capture moments of true reality.

Sometimes I just think of an image. Basically, I see an image in front of me. My eyes are open, but I visualize an image, very truthfully. It happened with all my movies the same way.

If you are a writer/director, the [movie] characters are a part of yourself.

No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.

I was overpowered by being in the world, by other people and their lives I couldn’t lead, their jobs I couldn’t do - overpowered even by jobs I would never want or need to do.

I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy to account for.

Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

Since when do corporations not have responsibility to the community? Since when to the not have responsibility to their employees?

Lots of people fantasize about what it would be like if they were president... Most think they'd be decent and wouldn't be corrupted at all, that they'd remain true to themselves.

It's an honest place to be if you don't understand someone else's experience, but there's no way for the other to understand if a conversation or an explanation isn't made.

I wouldn't want to try to make a living as an actor. I think actors... I give them a lot of credit for what they go through, but putting myself on the line like that would make me crazy.

Occasional kindness does not cancel out cruelty. Hitting is never acceptable under any circumstances.

If you have the wherewithal to have a lot of money, have it.