"My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house."

"Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal."

"As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good."

"No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay."

"I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?"

"After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration."

"Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none."

"We need to build AI systems that can learn with less data."