There will always be an underground..

I'm religiously celibate except in LA, NOLA, FLA, because there is certainly no God in any of those places. So unless you live in one of those places….

Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film..

Apply yourself wholly to the text; apply the text wholly to yourself..

Things are not going to improve for you in life until YOU improve.

You can make anything out of anything..

When I first read Lord of the Rings I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time the technology wasn't there, there was no such thing as CGI..

I couldn't be happier..

[I] love 'Munich', man. That's a very underappreciated film..

Africa is on the rise..

Do something. Do something small. Do something small but useful. Do something small but useful now..

One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture..

Hope changes everything, doesn't it?.

I see courage everywhere I go in Africa..

You get what you get when you get it..

I don’t like to do negatives. There are always pluses to things..

I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work..

The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken..

I'll have what she's having.

See-through goes with everything..

Aiya Earendil Elenion Ancalima!.