Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.

Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn't here yet, whatever it's going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That's it.

Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing.

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

I'm over the Oscar thing. I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive. I've seen it.

I knew that's where I was going. I knew we were going to Italy. You couldn't make this movie in America at this price. I knew it was going to be big. I knew there was going to be a ship involved and that there was going to be a set as big as the ship. I thought, well, here we go. But I knew that was where he was headed. He had been going this way for some time. All directors, once they have some success, they want to spend a whole heck of a lot of money. (Something else can't hear.)