Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.

In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

I have some favorites. I love Chaplin; I mean I really love Chaplin. I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else.

There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.

As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very meaningful in your own mental scrapbook.

You rarely get a tentpole that has this much emotional depth, this much character to dive into.

As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make because of the fixed and tight production schedule.

Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.

Those who spend all they earn always end in penury.

To forgive does not mean to condone.

If you think that your hardest problem is what color shoes to wear.You should get out more!

Wait. You work for me?""I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

Ideally, brewers interpret history, and through science they create art.

The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.

I use photos a lot for drawing people and personalities, but they're almost never photos that I've taken.

It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.

Your direction is a result of your perception.