We never did just one take. Multiple takes. Many. I did a bunch. Sometimes I do one take. Sometimes I did 20.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.

We crash into each other just so we can feel something.

We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

You have to be careful of the advice you take.

You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come out. If there's a half dozen, that would be a big day.

Hope is more the consequence of action than its cause. As the experience of the spectator favors fatalism, so the experience of the agent produces hope.

How we feel is not who we are. We might feel like failures, but as long as we are still trying, we are not failures. We are works in progress.

The light shines in the soul, awaken the spirit and gives clearer sight.

Who am I without God on my side? Absolutely nobody. A life without Him, is a life without a direction.

It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?

But you have to have a vision of what kind of military you are trying to build in order to get the [budget] cuts to make sense.

I'm happy because I won't have to train again, or travel or sit in team hotels.

Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest.