Anyone who has lived in an area with high unemployment knows how it erodes social bonds, lowers the resilience of the unemployed and their families, and damages the prospects of the next generation.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

We were on a fairway shooting a scene in 'The Dogleg Murders' when I was asked by the cameraman if it was safe to film from where he was standing. I said, 'Yes, it'll be fine.' I then managed to slice the ball 90 degrees into the camera.

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.

I wanted to be a movie director. I was just obsessed with watching movies and camera shots and directors. I read autobiographies and stuff of directors.

The Federal Reserve Act requires the Federal Reserve to report annually on its operations and to publish its balance sheet weekly.

Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn.

I look at Lil Wayne as being from my generation.

The young generation is willing to experiment more. Firstly, they are less motivated by money and compensation, unlike the previous two generations. Secondly, integrity and governance are very important issues for them.

We're not called to be a tolerant nation. We're called to be a nation of love.

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.

Finding where to put the camera is probably the most important thing you have to learn when you're a young director, and it's something that's a mixture of instinct and technique.

A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.

Rock had a huge impact. Anything that the older generation hates is usually loved by kids. Nothing much changes - that still continues today.

Each generation gets more accepting which is great.

I come from a Hasidic background; I am only one generation removed.

Jimmy's Hall' is set in Ireland in the '30s and everything that went under the camera we had to generate.

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.