Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

It is never very crowded at the front.

Leaving this life is just like going from one room to another and closing the door.

It's not so much what the job gives you, it's what you give to the job.

I love film so much. I think theatre will definitely be there for me as well, but for now I'd like to do more films.

I never got into debt because my parents had drummed into me at a young age: if you can't afford it, you can't have it.

When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.

How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me-

A merry heart goes all the way, - A sad one tires inan hour.