We're all entitled to our different likes and dislikes. Imagine the world if we all liked the same things.

Yeah, right. Instead of watching TV, we'll practice our weird magical powers. Great. What's next? Zooming around on flying carpets?

For Republicans, life begins at conception but ends at birth.

Old men and far travellers may lie with authority.

Who walketh upon the wings of the wind.

I would like the film to make people think about the place of women in the world - the advances and setbacks that they have experienced these past years in terms of their freedom.

I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.

Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press.

I was frustrated. I was doing some bad movies, movies that I knew going in were not going to be great.

I am in any way glorifying or simplifying prostitution. The reality of prostitutes around the world is so complex. I've tried to focus on the humanity.

The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.