You can be born-again and believe in Jesus, believe in Jesus' ideas and try to live them out, without becoming totally intolerant of other people.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

The dream is for a distant time.

When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.

Poverty's simplicity has an inexpensive beauty rooted in it, which the rich can never afford to buy

There are always choices. But sometimes there are no good ones.

There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.

George III was incapable of passing on a sense of mission to his son might a given some purpose to the crown prince's existence

Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom.

I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!

That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.

I was a bit of a tomboy, so I played softball and basketball. Then I was also a cheerleader. And I played flute too.