The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive.

Cat lovers turn into cat collectors.

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

She is such a scene-stealer. She's got these lashes and big eyes, and when she walks on to the set everybody just says "ooh."

I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.

I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.

If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it.

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.

I've never had a clear road map. When things come along, I benefit.

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

Every verse in the scrolls of your days sings to us of hope and wonder.

When a presidential candidate is publicly requesting help from the Russians, you know that there is something seriously going wrong in the USA.

It's that clear...there's no obstacle before determination. It sees it as an opportunity to shine

Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.

Cosmo Girl with a passion for fashion and a magic flask.

You can't say that people don't love music anymore because they do. If we say that all the music stopped, if music stops now, the world can't handle that. We need our music.

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.