Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.

I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I want to say that I've always been full of hope. I've never lost that. I have a lot of hope for this country and for the entire world. . .

When you listen, you learn, You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.

The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.

I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.

Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.