You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

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

Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it.

It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

Music stops you from thinking.

If money could buy happiness, the rich would not drown their sorrows in expensive wine.

We can compare a life without a goal to an equestrian on an obstinate horse: much movement but little headway

The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.

I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.

Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.

The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.

I like to play good girls more because I play bad ones all the time!

I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.

If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it.

To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage.