That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.

If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.

The sexy moments for me, I wasn't thinking of them as sexy. I was thinking of them as more specific to my character. So it was necessary for my character's development in the movie, so that's how I played it.

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself.

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won't think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn't have a good time.

I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.