We all invite our own devils, and we must exorcise our own.

If you try to make your circle closed and exclusively yours, it never grows very much. Only a circle that has lots of room for anybody who needs it has enough spare space to hold any real magic.

Know all the Questions, but not the Answers Look for the Different, instead of the Same Never Walk where there's room for Running Don't do anything that can't be a Game

Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley.

Nothing's real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn't really mean anything.

It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore.

The answers aren't important really... What's important is- knowing all the questions.

Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life.

Eleven would have been the best time. Eleven is just about the best age for almost everything.

Know all the Questions, but not the AnswersLook for the Different, instead of the SameNever Walk where there's room for RunningDon't do anything that can't be a Game

Belonging to a place isn't nearly as necessary as belonging to people you love and who love you and need you.

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

Jesus' philosophy in life seemed to be, "Let's confuse as many people for as long as we can". He was an enigma. I felt I could have no better role model.

There are truths which can kill a nation.

Before I go on stage, I knock three times. Three is my lucky number; I once went into an audition and was number 333 and got the best part ever.

Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.

But what is art other than revealing human nature?

As the price of gas goes up, people will become more conscience of how much they use.

Embracing failure is the most important trait I've developed in my career. I have tried to learn from my failures, and I believe it has made me stronger, more confident and more resilient.

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.