The most successful filmmakers are not always the most knowledgeable ones. They are the ones who put action to what they learnt. They do, not talk about doing.

You are a storehouse of love.

Traveling into the unfamiliar is quite an adventure for a blind person. It makes me feel like a real explorer.

...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?

Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.

It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me it often feels like a brutal trivialization of reality.

I don't get nominated, and I have to say, I've probably gotten the greatest mass of press in my life through not getting nominated. It's definitely been a winning situation as far as I'm concerned.

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

Careful the spell you cast, not just on children. Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see And turn against you... Careful the tale you tell. That is the spell.

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.