"Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year."

"It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations."

"I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them."

"I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it."

"To speak the truth in a season of deceit is an act of supreme bravery. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Tennis and golf are best played, not watched."

"If youth knew; if age could."

"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses."