The individual has to fashion himself out of the material given by his culture.

That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.

"The power of cinema lies in its ability to make us feel, to make us think, to make us question."

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass, it's about learning how to dance in the rain.

The heart of a mystery is not the crime, but the people involved.