If I believe the Bible, then I don't believe that a gay lifestyle or a homosexual lifestyle is the right way to choose to live. I believe that there's something so much better.
Collaborate, don't dictate.
I don't want a zombie society. I don't want to go that far.
My stuff is my stuff. Sometimes it's not as successful as some of the other stuff. But it's my stuff.
As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!
Hollywood doesn't trust me, and we don't really mix. When a movie has stars, everything in the budget goes up, even the catering costs. I just don't like the process of having Suits all around, so I prefer casting unknowns. It adds another level of tension - you don't quite know what to expect from them. My movies don't even need that much money.
Anybody who tunes into Rush Limabaugh already knows what he's going to say and is already inclined to agree. So it winds up creating tribes.
In Russia, people suffer from the stillness of time.
Of course, we all need to have basic necessities met, such as good health care, good food, good education and good housing. But what is good? Having too much is bad, as having too little is also bad.
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
The people who ask me for my autograph are the people who've put me here today, and you can't afford to forget that.