To pursue happiness for its own sake is the surest way to lose it.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first subsidize.

my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.

To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.

I think you have to show homage to creators.

I learned that I enjoy directing a lot more than I enjoy writing, which is interesting, because writing is lonely and infamous basically.

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. It's kleptocracy, it's corruption, it's a nation that's really only dependent upon oil and gas for their economy.

I feel so grateful when I see a movie and there's a woman who looks somewhat like me. I'm like, 'Thank you, Samantha Morton!' You know, a woman who feels like a human being. That means so much to me.

A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.

We have a situation where we have a lawmaker here in California who says that if you spank the child, you spank them, you're going to go to jail for a year or you're going to pay a $1,000 fine.

Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.