Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.

Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.

Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.

Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers.

The world would be a poorer place without Doctor Who.

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.

Start before you're ready.Don't prepare, begin.

Truces may stop the battles, but part of you will always feel like you're at war.

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only if you did it right.

I absolutely admit I had him in the handcuffs so he wouldn't go anywhere while I checked the computer... I certainly wasn't going to kill him. That's hardly going to do my career any good, is it?

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

When I was young, I thought banks were there to protect the assets of people who had justified concerns, because of their experiences under communism for example.

We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.

The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance.

You never know when a helping hand will change another person's entire life.