The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.

People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.

I would hate to say as a non-African-American person that it would be wrong for a black person to direct white people in a movie. Wouldn't that be awful of me to say that? The only sympathizing thing I might say for people that want to [grumble] is that a filmmaker should have an understanding for the place where the people you're portraying are coming from.

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.

If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.