We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

Understand life's mysteries, - as mysteries to be lived.

As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains.

You can't legislate sobriety.

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.

The thing that's interesting about wire walking is that we never get to see it other than looking up. It's like a circus thing. It's a guy on a wire.

I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

Movies are movies. Some bend light through a lens. Some create moving images virtually. At the end of the day, movies are movies.

Pour your heart out to me and fill my emptiness with your grief.

Let us not rest until we are free to live in dignity in the land of our birth.

Bridges take people across rivers. Leaders take people across ignorance. With a leader, the destination of a journey is sure.

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.

These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.

I feel kind of fortunate that over the last 25 years I've been in almost every Disney/Pixar film.

The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.

If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.