So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.

I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store.

Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.

Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.

You can accomplish His will, without stopping midway, and even though you may face obstacles, you will overcome

When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from.

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

I've learned over the years that identity has a whole lot less to do with location or other people's expectations than with your own sense of self and self-confidence.

Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees.

The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts.

I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much [for women writers working] in film.

When you have children your house smells very unpleasant all the time.

Live only for what you know in your heart is worth dying for.

Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.