I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars.
There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.
There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.
I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.
Any good movie is filled with secrets.
No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following sentence: Two tanker trucks has just overturned in Alaska, spilling a totel of 10,000 gallons of beer onto a highway. two would find an error in subject-verb agreement, two would find an error in spelling, and six would find a sponge and drive north.
A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.
Racism is exclusion, that's why I make fun of everybody.
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.
The way you get deals done and the way you get good terms, is to have a competitive situation.
Yoga is not a new path to follow but a way to become conscious of the original impetus of life. Yoga is the movement and evolution of Life itself.