You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.

I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!

Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.

Don't shy away from producing your own film and being in charge of its business end as well.

A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?

I like Hollywood movies. I like them like I like to eat scrambled eggs; I like them for fun.

In spite of all the terrible things that happen in our world, hope can - and must - prevail.

The subjects have to come with questions for me. I don't make films where I'm a massive fan.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man. Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.

I think China is set up to surpass the US on the even more critical industry of green power.

I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!

I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.

Many wonderful, creative people have won Oscars, so if you win one, you're in their company.

Yes, illness is serious, but the indignities are also funny. And that defines my world view.

One reason why in Hollywood we are so often inventing heroes is that real heroes are vexing.

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

You won't find another Chaplin, you won't find another Keaton, because the school is closed.

The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.

I feel prettier with a naked face and ChapStick. But a good haircut makes a huge difference.

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture.

There's over a billion people on this planet that don't have access to clean drinking water.

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it.

Experiencing flow helps a person remember that they are unique. ... Just like everyone else.

Lady Gaga has a lot of energy, and that is fantastic, but she is using old surrealist images.

I think to see American troops in an American city is, you know, the sum of all of our fears.

The Holy Grail audience are young people and, at the end of the day, that's who gets courted.

Utopia is something that I think about in connection to an experience I had when I was a kid.

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.

I don't have the ability to find a middle ground with my audiences, and I know this too well.

Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

While shooting a movie if I can't find what I want, then I keep going until I find my moment.

I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive.

Moviemaking is a hard job and this industry is crazy. You never know what is going to happen.

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

I love the experience of walking into the theater, buying a ticket and all that goes with it.

I didn't know anything about martial arts. I'm a big fan, but I never practiced martial arts.

Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species.

You have to make choices always. It's about the omission of something for the sake of another.

Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.

I think some people are really connected to who they were as children. And some people aren't.

I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails 'xoxo.'

I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between.

My wife runs a non-profit that gives legal information online to victims of domestic violence.

Your tweet is as important as if you would have written a Ph.D. [dissertation] on the subject.

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