You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

I'm me, I live from film to mouth.

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.

You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.

It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.

So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

You know our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have and its often only found in moments of truth.

It's hard to come across someone who can look past an artist who is larger and just see them for the talent they are and have them be willing to invest what's necessary to make them a star.

You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.

If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.

I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.

I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do the more he is able to accomplish.

When you are doing something neat, and you're doing it with neat people, and there is that convergence, something amazing will happen.

The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes.

Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It's been something I've focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission.

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie.

I mean these people who work on Broadway, in my opinion, are the most gifted of everyone. I mean they really know how to dance. They really know how to act. They really know how to sing. They know how to perform.

When I get older, I want to be a Kristin Chenoweth and Sutton Foster - you know how they do all of it? I just want to do anything that has to do with performing.

Spain is an important historical ally of the United States, and if confirmed, I will add to our more than 200 years of diplomatic history to further our shared interests.

We're really good friends and we hang out. It's like I get to hang out with my friends and get paid for it.

I play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it.

I was brought up to do my duty. Not to be vain, not to shout from the rooftops about my virtues - to be modest and well-behaved. I'm totally wrong for show business.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

I had this extraordinarily bizarre moment when, two Fridays ago, my missus gave birth to our second child at 11am and by the same time the following day I was sitting around a table with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Rabat in Morocco, rehearsing a scene we were going to shoot the next day.

Estee Lauder cologne. Sam Cooke always wore it, and I started wearing it because he wore it.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Obviously, South Africa is our most important market, but we are also gradually increasing our presence throughout East and West as well as North Africa. It is a continent with a lot of potential which we plan to tap into.