No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.

No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.

I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.

Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.

I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.

I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.

I want to make a film about a factory worker.

I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors.

I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.

The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.

Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.

Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.

Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.

I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

The truth will only be told over a career.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

At some point youre no longer growing up youre aging. But no one can pinpoint that moment exactly.

Filmmakers are going to make films just like painters are going to paint.

As you get older, you want less from the world; you just want to experience it. Any barriers to feeling emotions get dismantled. And ordinary things become beautifully poetic.

My characters are not plastic.

There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind.

Thinking fascinates me, and I probably spend too much time in my mind. My wife says that my perfect world is to be in the Suburban driving, with her next to me and the boys in the back seat and complete silence for two thousand miles.

Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're actually doing every day.

If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.

As always, work with your figure; draping, pleats, and proportion can work miracles when it comes to hiding flaws and enhancing assets.

The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because of aid; misery and poverty have not ended but increased. Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.

I've learned over the years to appreciate God's timing, and you can't rush things; it's gonna happen exactly when it's supposed to.

I'd like to see the high schools put in a rule that limits recruitable athletes from playing on teams outside a 100-mile radius from their home or school.

I am naturally confident.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Ever since I was a child I always wanted to be WWE Champion. I've been in love with sports-entertainment for my entire life, and I always wanted to do that.

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.

Energy is the universal language of Nature; Nature is the universal source of information.

I'm a big believer in personal responsibility. My life wasn't always peaches and roses. Where I am today is through a belief in hard work and never saying no.

It is hard to be a woman. You must think like a man act like a lady look like a young girl and work like a horse.