My Advice to Young Filmmakers is This: Don't Follow Trends. Start Them!

There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.

No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to hundreds of millions of people for two hours in the dark.

There are no rules in filmmaking

My films must let every man, woman, and child know that God loves them, that I love them, and that peace and salvation will become a reality only when they all learn to love each other.

Friend, you are a divine mingle-mangle of guts and stardust. So hang in there! If doors opened for me, they can open for anyone.

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

I always felt the world cannot fall apart as long as free men see the rainbow, feel the rain and hear the laugh of a child.

Most ideologies of the world are not for the individual. They're against the individual. Communism, fascism. Any kind of an ism - almost - they're against the individual.

Don't follow trends, start trends.

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

Religion is the product of organizations called churches

Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8, 000 movies.

In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work.

My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.

There is such a thing as the courage in remaining baffled.

Making one person smile can change the world - maybe not the whole world, but their world.

Only when a chef changed the way you saw the world, through cooking, did food truly become art, and that was rare indeed.

Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.

Second thoughts have aborted more dreams than all the difficult circumstances, overwhelming obstacles, and dangerous detours fate ever could throw at you.