I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.

All through my career I've done what I can to discover new talent and give them a start.

You can be great just by being yourself.

Some movies I make for myself. I just sort of make them for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine I'm an audience.

I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.

The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.

All of my movies are about how I wish the world would work. I've made very few movies about how the world worked. I could name them on one and a half hands, about how my movies have been very reflective of how the world was exactly. A lot of my movies are really about the way I wish the world was, and that's what this whole art form is all about. It's an interpretive art form.