If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo, then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location, and the story's about this British journalist.

When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.

When you start being enthusiastic about whatever it is you like, that is the golden age for you.

If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo, then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location, and the story's about this British journalist.

I prefer to watch people.

I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it.

I still enjoy watching films more than making them.

I'm a fan of music from all over the world.

There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.

I learnt a lot about how to negotiate the camera: everyone had told me an actor doesn't really need to do anything on screen, but I realised that wasn't true. If you do nothing, it's boring.

There has always been discouragement, negativism, and temptation in the world because of Lucifer.

At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.

But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.

I spot detail quickly.

I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

I have strengths, and I have weaknesses. I don't pretend to be able to write a great thesis or doctorate - I have no pretensions in that direction.

When I lived summers at my grandparents' farm, haying with my grandfather from 1938 to 1945, my dear grandmother Kate cooked abominably. For noon dinners, we might eat three days of fricasseed chicken from a setting hen that had boiled twelve hours.

In order to inspire people, that's going to have to come from somewhere deep inside of you.

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.

Two souls share a single thought as both hearts beat as one.

Writers of literature make very little money.

No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it.

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

I'm fired up about TV converter boxes.

By cracking down on wage theft, we can make sure workers and taxpayers are not getting ripped off by crooked employers.

I just think if you're going to do something, do it properly.

Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.

Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the complications and consequences of endeavors.

The SEC got more than 100 rules to write under Dodd-Frank, the lion's share of all the agencies. And we've moved, I think, with a tremendous sense of urgency. But it takes a long time to write rules and get them approved by a five-member commission.

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.