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.

I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with.