We cannot burn Mick Jagger. We want the effect, but we can't burn him.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

Greatness is the quality of time converted into production or value

That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.

When you enter the House of God, you leave your ego at the door and embrace purity as if your life depended on it.

Perhaps God gives us a hint about whom God favors through physical and material prosperity. So those who are doing well are probably favored by God.

Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.

Cloud Foundry is not exciting. What's exciting is what you can do with Cloud Foundry.

Spiritual leadership is the power to change the atmosphere by one's presence, the unconscious influence that makes Christ and spiritual things real to others.

No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.

True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.

I came from a warm Jewish family.