Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it.

It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

Music stops you from thinking.

I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets harder.

Storytelling is the distinctly human implement designed to synthesize our purposeful interaction with reality.

As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.

You have to take the good with the bad. Some players only talk to the press when they are doing good. When you're doing bad you shouldn't shy away from them and when doing good, don't run up to them.

I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.

That's just a much more enjoyable and motivating experience for me, when I can see people who are just as obsessed with the idea as I am.

I love thee like puddings; if thou wert pie I'd eat thee.

Spassky will not be psyched out by Fischer

Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.

When a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees.

Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion.