Style lasts forever and taste doesn't.

Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea.

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.

Beauty doesn't have anything to do with prettiness. Beauty has to do with something else; it gets into an area where words can't go.

Style is the most ephemeral thing I know. It's not about how effective you are it's about how you are effective.

My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.

Sometimes other people have better ideas.

It's interesting that there are places that words can't get to.

My education was an education by movies.

Your daughter's coming of age, you ought to let her see the world a little.

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Diplomats do not know how to negotiate, they only know how to keep their job.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.

Dallas is a huge city. Great shopping, great restaurants, great museums.

Our confidence comes from our preparation.

It is a rule that those who come into a Court of justice to seek redress, must come with clean hands, and must disclose a transaction warranted by law.

Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.