When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again.

There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.

It's an important part of being a member of society to know what's happening in the world and to know where you fall in it and what you can do about it.

I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.

Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.

If you really want to tell someone you love them, you don't just go and blurt it out. There's a dance. And your movie does that.

I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.

You only have so much time in life so everything you do needs to mean something to you.

You're always against the clock. But really just fighting for quality.

The apartments are made for eels.

I don't really put trophies out. I don't keep trophies around my apartment.

Frustration... when our happiness or sadness looses control. The blissful intensity of sensations, the disappointing realisation that dissatisfaction is not enough.

That kind of pursuit is not beneficial to mankind: art for self aggrandizement at the cost of love.

But even as she was going through with it she knew it was useless, just as it was useless to save a single earring when the other half of the pair was lost

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.

I have a great deal of spiritual dignity. It's on loan from eternity, and you do too, and we have to use it in our relationship with each other.

Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.

If you keep a gun in your purse, you get killed, because no woman can find anything in her purse in under twelve minutes. It's a rule.

I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.

Why on earth declutter when you can just shrinkwrap?

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.