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.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.

I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.

I couldn't comprehend a 35-year-old woman gravitating toward a 70-year-old man.

We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights, freedom, and the rule of law must be established in the poorest nation in our hemisphere.

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it.

What I learned from doing 'The Graduate' was it doesn't matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written.

Acquiring knowledge is the most fruitful effort.

I write just knowing that I enjoy writing. But if I have to write, it seems like nothing comes. But when I go there for my own pleasure, the Lord might just give me loads of stuff all at once.

Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable.

I've always been a sucker for any technology engineered primarily for the entertainment of the human race - even such technology as has been disguised as 'useful' or 'improving' when we all know the real virtue lies in its ability to distract and divert.

I can't act, and so I have to live that particular character in my real life and then exhibit it on screen.

I lived in Portland for almost 20 years, and that's where my eldest daughter went to college. I missed the sunshine. I grew up in L.A.

Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon.

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

I've signed many documents as president and CEO as required by law. I signed every single document that we were required to file - every single one of them.

I like my stationery to be funnier, like, 'Here's my note, and it's an elephant with a lady smoking a cigarette on top.'

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

I am becoming wealthy.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.