While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed.

We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction.

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

As soon as you made a decision that time is going to be currency, then it should be a reflection of what's happening today. And obviously, it is.

I just don't analyze what I do, because I'm afraid I won't be able to do it anymore. I'm sort of superstitious. And that's why I've never looked back at any movie I've done.

You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.

It's so hard to go to war at home. Go to war, go home, repeat. And that is the future of warfare. Forget about remote control drones, there's going to be remote control tanks.

If we could switch off the aging gene we would. There's no technology that we've had that we haven't used. We are in the capital of staying young forever.

It's always interesting for me that people vote against their interests.

I make movies. I'm not in politics.

A schizophrenic war is not an easy thing to deal with.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Dare to be more than ordinary... Dare to be extraordinary.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass

We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.

A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me.

One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data.

The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between the fantastic and the drab seems too narrow.

When you go to a film festival as an audience member, it's so much fun. But when you bring your own film there, you carry so much stress and excitement.