We all get outraged by things and there are things that make us angry and maybe for a while we get angry enough to actually go do something about it.

I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.

I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating...anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us-I think this world would be unlivable without art and I thank you.

You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

What are the stories you want people to tell about you?

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

One man's thorn is another man's rose.

Just be yourself, when no one believe you!

While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster

People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don't like the shop trading hours and you're a shop owner, you don't have to open.

Love is and has always been His idea. He came to love us and to teach us how to love. When we do this, life is exciting, beautiful and rewarding.

When this government [Chiang Kaishek's] finally fell there was no one ready to teach the Chinese the human way of life.

In terms of my career and stuff, Game of Thrones has just been such a blessing because people really love the show.

A warrior never gives in to fear when he is searching for what he needs. Without love, he is nothing.

For China to continue to enjoy economic prosperity, it needs to foster trusting international relationships, not tensions ... and it is important for China to understand this.

Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.