Some movies I make for myself. I just sort of make them for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine I'm an audience.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.

Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.

Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.

Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers.

The world would be a poorer place without Doctor Who.

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.

NOTHING IS GREATER THAN ITS SOURCE

In times of your need, you will know those who really love you.

Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film.

Those who always have a sense of appreciation and gratitude never reach an impasse in life.

I am hungry for power, but not to lord over others; only to own myself.

I do not talk about my weaknesses, I work on them.

I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.

Kings are the slaves of history.

It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.

When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.