You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.

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.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

The whole purpose of education is to transfer and transform knowledge for the future generations so that they can transcend their lives and humanity as a whole.

He'd fantasized about her too? "You don't have to fantasize anymore, " she murmured...

All together, we know for many years that terror is the most dangerous thing for local, regional and international stability.

I will never apologize for being me, speaking the truth & giving all of me to the world. I will never apologize for being real & how I feel.

Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.

Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves.

As we grow old we slowly come to believe that everything will turn out badly for us, and that failure is in the nature of things; but then we do not much mind what happens to us one way or the other.

If we dare to win, we should also dare to lose

Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.