Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

There is no time for regrets. Regrets relate to the past. We have been there. We need to progress to the future.

A man cannot change who he is. He can only hope that with age comes the wisdom to see his folly. I would like to believe I have achieved that.

Yesterday is a cancelled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is cash in hand. Spend It!

The Great Spirit is everywhere; He hears whatever is in our minds and our hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice.

The gist of the Twist is chiefly in the hips

Laws die, books never.

Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.

I don't know how to let you go/ You are so deep down in my soul.

All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy. But you need a hell of a sense of humor to handle it.

We have to be even more Christocentric because of the influence of Islam today.