The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

Ambition is greed without makeup.

History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one's mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.

An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.

I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

When you're fast when you're shooting, there are great things that you discover. By being fast you also sometimes get more time to experiment.

It is ten thousand times cheaper to pay the best spies lavishly than even a tiny army poorly.

The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.