Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

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.

Don't fall asleep yet. Contrary to popular belief, that's not where dreams get accomplished.

The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church.

No nation respects a beggar.

At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England.

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.

Katie, 90% of the things you worry about don't happen, and the 10% that do, you can't do anything about.

One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself.

Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.

When I first saw you, I saw love. from You're Still The One