You know why I don't like that camera? Because it prevents me from seeing you!

I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.

You have to believe. You have to stick to your guns.

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.

Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man.

You know why I don't like that camera? Because it prevents me from seeing you!

To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.

It has nothing to do with commercial success. You cannot calculate in your head how to put the mosaic together to make a commercial film: that's out of the question.

People abusing their power makes me see red.

I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Instead of saying we need to outlaw certain types of weapons, we need to find better ways to enforce current law.

Is venison dear Yes to both and the third.

I view advertising as being this romanticizing element that helps us appreciate, understand and enjoy how remarkable it is that we've been able to do so much, and learn so much. I view it as really vital, even though sometimes it can be really annoying.

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.

Lifes a dance you learn as you go sometimes you lead sometimes you follow dont worry about what you dont know.

I'm interested in the gene bank of how Americans have built in different regions in different times.

I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.

I think that it's really important to go away and come back.

If you find yourself mistreated, misunderstood, and mocked as a Christian, take heart, for so they did to the Christ.

I wrote a novel in my early twenties; I won a high school prize - my short story got published, and I got 50 dollars, which was a huge deal.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.

So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment, there's a frontier. And there tends to be an urge for people, especially religious people, to assert that across that boundary, into the unknown, lies the handiwork of God. This shows up a lot.

For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering.

I couldn't be a police officer. It's a very difficult job to put your life in the face of danger for someone else, and that is extremely selfless. To now vilify cops is not really the way I think it should be looked at.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.

I know this is a weird niche, but a lot of my female friends have these strange stories where there their dads have seen the small successes of their daughters and have decided that they are creative as well.

My perfect bag would be practical but also have the stylish element to it; it would be bold and colourful. I would actually be able to open and close it. That would be a first.

Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.

Disney is our contemporary landscape. The best art will reflect that and challenge you. Disney comforts you, whereas the best art shakes up your comfort level and perception.