Some things may never change but other things can be so completely different that they make the things that don't change bearable.

Everybody wants to know why we're here, so we search for that answer. We want to know who we belong to so we search for those people and all the while God is whispering, 'Here I am.

Christmas isn't a parade or concert but a piece of home you keep in your heart wherever you go.

Mercedes is a pretty princess

One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.

Do you think I would enter into a contract with that mob? Absolutely no chance. I would not sell them a virus. That is a 'No' by the way. There is no agreement whatsoever between the clubs.

Hegel remains of great importance to understand ourselves, but essentially because we have all grown out of a reaction against Hegel.

If the will did not exist, neither would there be that centre of the world, which we call the I.

We haven't done anything. That has devolved into a partisan bickering of the kind that says Nero was fiddling while Rome burned.

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

God judges a tree by its fruits and not by its roots.

When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.

The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal.