The actors come and you start seeing things happen for real.

We're living in a world that says that if you engage in mass fraud, you'll be rewarded, but if you go down the street and steal an orange juice, you get arrested.

The job of the writer and the filmmaker is not to impose his vision on the reality, but to be inspired by the reality and create a vision out of that.

I never say "Action" or "Cut." Never. I think that would disturb the life from happening in and around everything.

Since Hollywood seems to be more interested in people wearing tights and using powers, there seems to be a fertile ground for movies about real human beings.

It's hard for me to say you have to accept that the world is meaningless and the landscape is there before and after. That's not something we learn much in our culture growing up.

Sometimes we have dreams, but we just can't make them. That's normal.

I think happy and hope is more hopeful when you acknowledge that there's awful things too.

I'm not going to read reviews like, "I have to do these things." Any good criticism makes you think about your own films and about cinema in general.

You have to let life come and go.

I like to give the actors the freedom, and they know they have the freedom, to change anything they want at any time.

I have faced death this night, and I have called his bluff.

It seemed to him that life's true tragedy was to lift up one's voice among the living and be met with indifference.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .

The spiritual warrior hides from nothing. We jump into the fire, we dive into the ocean. We become the sea.

I'm a pants girl. I just feel more comfortable in them.

We cannot say no to temptation without saying yes to something far better.

Ali's daughter is fighting and Joe Frazier's daughter is fighting as well.

Nobody gives you money for nothing, and that's the lesson with the Clintons. Nobody gives you money because they like you.

Artistry has to define the Artist so there is no other way but to create the kind of music that speaks about who you are and what's important to you, therefore individualizing the Artist.