Television has certainly become a wasteland of quality programming.

It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.

In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.

Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

The path that we are headed on economically in America is one that leads to total ruination of the American system.

Celebrities are nowhere as rich as some people think they are.

Nobody would watch Lifestyles of the Poor and the Unknown.

Never give up if you really want something, keep plugging away at it and your dreams can come true.

People are living such miserable lives economically. They want the escape. They want the fantasy. They'd love the dream of being king for a day or queen for a day.

I like to see things start, grow, and then move on to better things.

You can't reward people who don't want to work with more money than they would make while they were working.

You don’t always have to follow the rules. You have to stand for what you believe.

The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed.

Sometimes the best part in life is an accident that goes right.

There are three masks: the one we think we are, the one we really are, and the one we have in common

How does Satan mislead us? By misquoting Scripture. By leading us astray. By getting us to make excuses instead of repenting.

And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.

Courage starts when the fun stops

Because the truth is - and we know it - we were born to die without regrets. Regret is the only wound from which the soul never recovers.

All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.

Wish chastely, and love dearly.