You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.

So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.

The older we get the less afraid we are.