"We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore."

"I have to recognize that I am agnostic."

"Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent."

"Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career."

"Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples."

"Leave no stone unturned."

"It is a quiet truth that true innovation is born when curiosity dares to question long-settled assumptions."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."