Watch your posture whenever you walk through a doorway. Hold your head high, your shoulders back, and your torso out. This will convey confidence and command respect.

Smile big at the right time. Women who were slower to smile in the corporate world are perceived as more credible.

The flooding smile: when meeting someone, don’t smile right away. Pause for a moment, then let a big flooding smile go over your mouth and eyes. This will give them the impression that the smile is more genuine

Use your eyes–strong eye contact gives the impression of respect and affection. It also gives the impression of being an abstract thinker.

The sticky eyes technique: hold your gaze as much as possible. When talking about personal matters with another men, hold your gaze a little less.

The epoxy see eyes technique: hold gaze on the subject even when another party is speaking. Conveys intense confidence and interest in the subject. Use with caution.

If you sell yourself short before you even start, you'll never know how far you could have gone. Ambition is a wonderful thing and has gotten me farther than I ever thought I'd go.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother was an elementary school teacher. They were the children of Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States from England and Lithuania in the late 1800s.

My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.

It's such a drag to make a movie.

Would-be terrorists cannot so much as board a plane without a thorough screening, yet we give them nearly unfettered access to very dangerous weapons.

As educators and policy makers, it is important to demonstrate for parents the connection between high levels of student participation in assessment and system accountability - ensuring the success of every student.

The first black president will be a politician who is black.

A good marriage is a contest of generosity.

Go make your life the one you have always wanted, knowing you have the power to make it happen.

Why not try thinking of your life as hilarious rather than nightmarish?

Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.

Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun.

To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray through the heav'n's wide pathless way; And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.

There is not a week that goes by that I don't have a dream that I am back in the business.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.

Ataturk approved of the mevlevi dervish approach to God as being 'an expression of Turkish genius' that reclaimed Islam from what he saw as hide-bound, backward Arab tradition.

Daft Punk would not exist if there was no technology.

Directing film is the hardest thing I have ever done.

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema; in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.

But obviously you don't want to just be the guy who comes in and sort of spices up every movie. So yeah, definitely moving into more of a leading man role would be great, but on my own terms.