Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films.

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

There's a religious basis to their [Bush and Chaney] kind of conservatism. It's rooted in a kind of fundamentalism. I'm afraid of that. I don't like that idea. I think all extremism is suspect.

Courage comes from a heart that is CONVINCED it is loved.

One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estimated.

It's not pain. It's raw material.

I've been with 'Days of Our Lives' for 21 years, and I've decided this year is going to be my last year.

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, that's all

Do you know how short you have to be to have a Napoleon complex in North Korea?

I lurch from chaos to chaos. I can't find my driving licence and my clothes are everywhere - cooking is the neatest thing I do.

As tennis players, you are never satisfied. We are greedy as players, always want better results.

I've got a lot of stamina and I enjoy people, so having lots of people around doesn't freak me out.