The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.

Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.

Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.

Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers.

The world would be a poorer place without Doctor Who.

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.

Sometimes great achievements arrive much later than we expect, but they arrive, and they are great.

I have come to hide you, ” darkness told the star. “I'm too bright, ” the defiant star replied.

To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.

Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back to the wall...and then I can write.

If you can make just one person laugh, then you are already doing better than Tony Danza.

It's never been my goal to be king of the prom. It's been my goal to do the right thing and get the job done.

The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.

Unbuttered toast is a substance half complete, and to be forced to eat it in that state is necessarily to feel deprived.

To seduce the enemies soldiers from their allegiance and encourage them to surrender is of special service, for an adversary is more hurt by desertion than by slaughter.

I think they're really linked. I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.