There's something about all the people who are on a mission for purity and chastity, which I find very questionable.

When you make a film, you come to say something.

Making a film transforms your relationship to the world. And there's some sort of natural authority that builds up along the way.

There was something, which was the turning point: I felt very strongly that women were sexualized, and perceived like they are sexual in every move, and it started off really early.

With a screenwriter and with the actors there is always an environment of trust. You can say anything, all your secrets, and you know that it won't get out of that room.

The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.

I didn't want to do casting in a way that you find yourself in a situation where there's this perfect girl for a part and you just can't cast her because the family says no.

Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in.

Often times it isn't the quality of your candidates, it's the quality of your interview.

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations.

It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.

The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.

No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.

I hate that word blog It sounds like a large accumulation of snot

I don't really think of writing as a career. It's something that happened to me. By working harder than I knew it was possible to work, I have become passable at it.