When people get married, it enhances their relationship and puts strains on it.

I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about anything at any given moment. When you feel like you've arrived somewhere, that's the real problem.

You're constantly guided by the last thing you made.

Belief... was its own magic-so long as it was carefully placed, often examined, like a bridge kept in careful repair.

Those who love their lives too much eventually lose it. While those who are ready to sacrifice their lives for others gain it.

Which is better: to dare to look directly into the blinding present, no matter how painful, or to await the detachment of hindsight -- which, being less painful, is more objective?

I think that Donald Trump is coming to this office with fewer set hard-and-fast policy prescriptions than a lot of other presidents might be arriving with.

In the movie I realized, I had the luxury of getting to see how the other person feels.

Government doesn't work. That's the first lesson we must learn if we want to improve society.

I depend on good editors and a good director.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide.

The designer's job is to imagine the world not how it is, but how it should be.