Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use that to create something very big.

When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of.

Cool? Am I cool? I don't know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That's my job, at its very essence.

I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality.

Something that I tell myself every morning when I wake up is like: "Think it over, take the time to think it over." I don't like spontaneity, there you go. I'm wary of it.

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.

I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges.

Don't give in to fear. Be strong, like i know you are. An never give up, d'you unnerstand, never. No matter what happens.I stare at him.I won't, I says. I ain't no quitter, Pa.That's my girl.

The real axis of evil in America is the genius of our marketing and the gullibility of our people.

Anticipating problems and figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it's productive.

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.

I like college football, but I'm a huge college basketball fan. I could sit and watch every game of March Madness and be happy. That could be a vacation.

My secret agenda is to convey my values to my kids.

The technology itself is not transformative. It's the school, the pedagogy, that is transformative.

Sometimes you have go into a movie and develop a certain type of chemistry with your co-stars. Sometimes it can click from "Hello" and other times it takes a few weeks to develop that.

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.