The worst thing for people to say about your movies is, "Yeah, it was pretty good, but it was too damn long.".

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

Everything depends on One Word : "Maktub" !

Touch my heart, feel my love, don't look at me.

Sometimes our inability to be Christlike happens because... we don't care. But sometimes it happens because we are naïve about our own hidden darkness.

When you network you develop a list of resources that you can share with others. This increases your value to those prospects and clients you deal with.

My hobby (politics) has become my life. I have the greatest life imaginable. I think I have a greater life than anyone in the universe, in fact.

Why does it so often take a genius to see the obvious?

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

No family is ever what it seems from the outside.

Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers.

Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.