The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the heart of the actors. 

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. 

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

You can't just let nature run wild.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. 

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.