OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.

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.

Knowledge without love is worse than ignorance. Action without love is madness...

Rivers are lucky. They can only move in one direction.

For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, arent we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?

My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon.

I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.

Advice: don't embarrass your bargaining partner by forcing him or her to make all the concessions.

L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community.

In terms of personal choices, let's all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.

When you say we're bringing a product to market, you make sure you execute.

Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you, and anything that is ever going to happen to you, is just a thought.