You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad.

Live your life, experience something, and then you're going to have a lot of things to say. But if you hang around in Hollywood, then you're going to say the same thing as everyone else - nothing.

Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.

I never think about franchises, to be honest. I always just do the film.

I'm always attracted by people who are lost in their time. I think it helps us.

I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.

I won't be able to do a film just for bad reasons, for money or for - I just can't. If I have one more where I feel I can bring you something, I will do it.

I wanted to do something that was entertaining - but with a catch.

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.

I think it's the society that drains us out, and we are in a society where we are driven by money.

Sometimes I see people finish a film and they go, "Yeah, that was good. Where are we going to eat?"

I stood up in a flash and flushed a light shade of furious.

If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

I'm only here for a while, so I'd like to do what I can.

Rich kids work hard. Most black kids aren't working hard enough.

I think the fact that we allow guns in our country is the main problem with school shootings.

If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains

Light the incense! You have to burn to be fragrant.

Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now.

Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it.