There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad.

I am intrigued enough to want to continue, and also to try and work with companies like Sony on modifying the cameras and making them more user-friendly and efficient.

But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.

There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker

The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.

One of the things I love about cinema is the range.

I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.

All that a child needs is a great love.

Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.

You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.

There will be hunters and hunted, winners and losers. What counts in global competition is the right strategy and success.

Truthfully, he lives right next to the Sexy Tree and I think that's the only thing that bothers me about this whole situation.

[Barack Obama to be] much worse [than George W. Bush].

The idea that you're hard to love is ludicrous.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.