The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.

The citizen must have high ideals, and yet he must be able to achieve them inpractical fashion.

Good and bad aren't absolutes. They are beliefs, judgements, ideas based on limited knowledge as well as on the inclinations of our minds.

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.

Welcome evill, if thou commest alone. [Welcome evil, if thou comest alone.]

My mom taught me not to talk about money.

One thing that's never gonna go, you know, go sour is good music.

Me not working hard? Yeah, right - picture that with a Kodak.

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits

Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.