I always say that you should remake flops, not hits.

It's the texture of New York that people miss by filming elsewhere. There are layers and layers of character - even in the pavement - that you can't get anywhere else. And the speed that the people move. It's so different from other places.

I always say that you should remake flops, not hits.

Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.

I've always had an interest in business, and my interest in business has really expanded over the years.

It take faith to follow your dreams and courage to reach them.

If youre not ready to fall youre not ready to hurdle.

It's not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium.

My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators.

I'm not particularly good at running things when once they get to a certain level. Once it gets routine, get me out of the way.

There's one rule that I have on my movies, which is that anything that you want to do, you can do. But! There's a flip side to that, which is that anything I want you to do, give it a try also.

Maybe love is just about finding the person you can be your weird self with.

They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.

The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.

Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves.

Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming.

If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble.

You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.

A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel 'The World According to Garp,' John Irving's denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character's fate and each almost a story in itself.

If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or to the ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin - but it is not of Edward of England that I shall ask pardon.

I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.

Nothing is ever a setback. If anything, it just motivates you for what's next.

I like doing business with people in India.

Coaches will do what they can but it doesnt necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers dont bother doing the job.

The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal fight.