I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you can still do it in Vietnam.

The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed.

Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.

So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

Of all the human evils, of which we have thousands of years of record and our own contemporary experiences, the most horrible evil of all is hypocrisy. It's this idea that there are those who do bad and there are those who do good, when, in fact, even the people who supposedly do good are saying they do good to mask the fact that they do evil.

The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.