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Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you want it all over again.

I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer.

It's weird to try to write lyrics for somebody else. They can't really get behind what you're saying or what you want them to say because they didn't experience it.

I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing.

If somebody asks me about the themes of something I'm working on, I never have any idea what the themes are. . . . Somebody tells me the themes later. I sort of try to avoid developing themes. I want to just keep it a little bit more abstract. But then, what ends up happening is, they say, 'Well, I see a lot here that you did before, and it's connected to this other movie you did,' and . . . that almost seems like something I don't quite choose. It chooses me.

I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.

The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making

There is a religious principle: Love thy neighbour as thyself. But it's also an economic asset. If you've got a neighbour, you've got help, and this implies another limit. If you want to have neighbours, you can't have a limitless growth economy. You have to prefer to have a neighbour rather than to own your neighbour farm.

The Austrian School came into existence when a bunch of Viennese rent-gouging landlords didn't want rent control on the rents they could gouge out of their tenants in old Vienna, so they hired a bunch of scribblers - and that's the Austrian School.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

Resist the temptation to compare yourself to others. This is crucial in order to be able to manifest whatever you want.

I can saw a woman in two - but you won't want to look in the box when I'm through.

You have to figure out a way to endure that little bit of time with the media. Any question they ask you; beautiful thing is, you get the last word. You can spin it any way you want to…If you can go third person on yourself, you can sit down and have a 10-15 minute conversation.

It's a nightmare to administer some of this sort of thing, but I want to tell the shareholders of Berkshire, to the percent we own marketable securities or things for which there are market, even if those markets - I want to tell them what it's all about.

What we really want to do is buy businesses that we would be happy to own forever.

Success is having people love you that you want to have love you.

If I knew where I was going to want to live the next five or 10 years I would buy a home and I'd finance it with a 30-year mortgage... It's a terrific deal.

I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.

I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just bringing people on so you can beat them up or, you know, make fools out of them or something

I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education.

I don't want to please everybody. I'd get a little worried if I did something and everybody was pleased with it.

I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do.

We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.

When you are clear about what you want to learn, you will find your teacher. The teacher is already there. The two of you will meet because you are looking for each other.

I feel like you can share as many jokes as you want to because no joke you do on Twitter is ever gonna be so big on Twitter, for the most part, that you can't say it on stage that same night.