John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but most of the time he was re-directing someone. He was making tight adjustments, and not even in terms of interpretation because he knew that by the time that the character had been filmed... well, he got it right when he cast you.

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.