I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

Mark Twain

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Samuel Johnson

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

Paul Thomas Anderson

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.

Source Unknown

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Ralph J. Cudworth

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

Van Morrison

Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.

Robert Reich

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

Doris Lessing

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

Jane Austen

It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.

Anton Chekhov

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

Michael Caine