Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.

I don't think any of us are normal people.

Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.

I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.

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

You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song.

I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.

Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.

Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

We feel responsibility but we never let ourselves feel connectedness.

One of the things I think I can bring to the presidency is to make government and public service cool again.

Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison

There are lots of things in the folklore, like they can only be killed by a silver bullet, that don't realistically work, if you're trying to say they have existed for hundreds of years, unknown.

Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

But you're disappointed." He brushed a strand of hair from her face. "It's not possible for you to disappoint me.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.