I would rather my films be well-known than I be well-known.

When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.

I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.

I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

I like films to be complete in their written form.

What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.

I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.

Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.

I am not a fan of westerns particularly.

I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.

My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.

But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.

You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.

Yes, I am very prolific.

No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

I would rather my films be well-known than I be well-known.

Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.

I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.

You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.

Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.

It was much more fun playing with him than against him. If you wanted one pitcher to start the seventh game of the World Series, which he did in 1945, you'd pick Hal Newhouser.

I think I'm different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine.

Some people love their teddies more than the humans because dep inside they know, that they are anyway better than humans.

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.

I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.

I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.

In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?

I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?

There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.

It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.

I got to act with my childhood film idol, Robert Redford, and that's a gift in itself.

It is impossible to watch a 'Friends' episode too many times. Phoebe is my favourite character. I used to play her songs on the guitar when I was a teenager. 'Smelly Cat' is very easy. It's only about three chords.

America's workers deserve a clean vote on a $7.25 increase, with no strings attached. Such an increase helps everyone and hurts no one.

Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.

I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents.

'Faraway' takes only minutes or a couple of bus stops to play. The easy to use touch controls work beautifully on the iPad. This is the game that should come standard on every new iPad.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

I like to do talk show appearances where I get to just be myself, and I do stand-up where I can completely be myself. That's what I've always loved the most, of anything.

There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

Books are good enough in their own way but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But great stories come out of great farming.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

Globalisation must have, as a critical component, international dispensation in the locality of U.N. institutions. It cannot be, and must not be, business as usual in the establishment and location of international institutions, especially of the United Nations.

Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.