There's a few people who I've accumulated over the years who I really trust to show a first cut to and to be helpful rather than unhelpful.

I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to. And often seem to write about situations that are too big for the characters.

I feel like if you can describe something fully and accurately, then people will be able to see it themselves - they don't need be told what to.

I like to let the actors work the way they want to.

I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies.

You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic.

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

The world is really heading in a very dangerous direction, it becomes that much more valuable and important to go to the movies and see human beings that are human beings.

I've reached a new level of closeness with a new friend when I can make a joke at their expense. That's one of the great joys of life for me.

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

Some mistakes are worth making twice.

All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education.

Many people out there don't have a choice, in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by.

Mancini is lucky. He has an owner [Sheikh Mansour] who speaks little and asks only: "What do you need?"

For Pakistan, Kashmir represents the infeasibility of secular nationalism and underscores the need for an Islamic theocracy in the subcontinent.

My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.

Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd

We embed social media inside our processes. Let's look at our processes and see how we can enhance them with social.

but it's so hard to dance that way when it's cold and there's no music.