You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved, because the movie is almost always bad when you do that. Your job No. 1 is for it to be entertaining, and if it's inspiring, that is great, too.

Every director knows it is his job to be manipulative. When you make an edit, you are trying to manipulate.

If America had a motto, it would be pull yourself up by the bootstraps, work harder than the next guy, have a goal and achieve it.

Whenever a film has three different release dates, people understandably assume that there must be something wrong with it.

A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not have an adequate impact. By the same token, even the best-stocked delivery system will have an inadequate impact if it fails to reach the poor.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

When I was young, I used to be very frightened of getting older and of death. Now, I'm more resigned to the inevitability.

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.