My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.
I think America is on the right track.
The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges.
One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.
And Hackman had really choked up when he was telling it. It was very moving.
Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment.
Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.
That's the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where hopefully they've never been before. The details, that's what the world is made of.
Kids are always open to anything. It's very rare that a kid isn't extremely eager to make you happy.
On Fantastic Mr. Fox, I got used to working with animated storyboards as a way of planning for the shoot. We did a lot of sequences that way with this movie. Partly as a result of that, I decided to build more sets in order to do certain shots.
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.
No hero is mortal till he dies.
We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
