Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing
You obviously can't cast Brad [Pitt] as an everyman guy because he just brings way too much baggage.
Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.
I'm not a very efficient filmmaker. There's a lot of guys, filmmakers like the Coen Brothers who shoot a whole movie and maybe don't use 12 setups. I'm in awe of people like that; I'm just not that guy.
I always feel that crime films are about capitalism.
It's obviously a lot more of a political undertaking making a movie in Hollywood and it's a business there. In Australia, they don't expect films to make money; whereas in America they're counting on it.
The crime film is the most honest American film.
What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is - did I make a beautiful picture?
It's monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milosevic treatment.
We can not understand each other, if every time we venture out we stick the feather of cocksureness in our caps. No, we can never wholly understand each other, and rise to the level of mutual esteem at least, if we do not invest in that fellow feeling that triumphs over class and creed and race and color.
Resolutely train yourself to attain peace