Well to me the most interesting things can be an actor's facial expression, a gesture, the movement of a body - all those things that we are saying to each other in-between the words.

For me cinema is image, sound, and the faces and bodies and, yes, voices, of my actors, and sometimes the words that they are saying, but not only the words.

Bad people often end up as heroes.

Sometimes you have to go ‘yippee-ki-yay’ on a person who deserves it.

In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.

I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.

I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.

In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond.

It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.

Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer.

I'm a religious fanatic? Yes, I am, actually.

Whoever had said that the hand rocked the cradle ruled the world must have has a Southern,born bred mother.