No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.

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.

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

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

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.

men are comfortable around strange women, but women are rarely comfortable around strange men.

Patience is the inclination to control the racing mind, which wants to jump ahead.

I'm far less a leader than a writer.

It's black women as perpetual sidekick. We need to hear from more women's voices. And it would be nice to see some books geared toward us.

War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war.

A happy genius is the gift of nature.

Use words that soak up life.

I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.