"A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most."

"I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort."

"In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect."

"I want to make movies about my country from my point of view."

"I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival."

"I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do."