The wonderful thing about films is how they can be understood by so many different people on so many different levels.

When you make many films with the same actors you can develop a special understanding with them. I love working with people I know and that I trust.

To love is to be engaged is to work is to be interested is to create.

When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation.

Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.

Ah, in work, love and the movies, everything is a fight.

He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

The key to effective teaching is to remember how you learned.

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

Ask 'What' and 'When.' The 'How' will naturally be revealed.

I don't suppose I ever entirely release a fish. I may not eat it, but that does not mean I take nothing from it before I let it go.

Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.

I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.

Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels.... Such is the real nature of horses.