You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.

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.

It's awful to be rich and mind-boggingly handsome and have women fawn over you. My heart bleeds for you. Poor dear, how do you manage?

I will not try to make you love me, to respect me or commit yourself to me. Bye.

Maybe the definition of a real father is someone who accepts their child for who they are, despite their faults or how far they've strayed from the path of the person you hoped they'd become.

The breeding programs for the bulls have improved significantly. The bulls are at a much higher caliber.

Market society is a game where you win by making sure other people are better off with you than without you.

Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.

When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work.

I love playing people who don't have a sense of humor for instance, there's nothing funnier to me than a person with no sense of humor.