There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

I'm happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in.

The funny thing about power is that no matter what you think it is, or how much you think you have, it's the people above and all around you who get the final say.

I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.

there is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be

Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.

Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

Grave of the Fireflies is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation... It belongs on any list of the greatest war films ever made.

By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.

Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.