I want to be champion.

I was a young player at Real, but working with players like Zidane and Beckham every day taught me such a lot: how you win and lose as a team and how you must respect your team-mates.

I would love to win the Champions League.

People wonder why I smile a lot. It is because I am doing what I love best: to play football for people who love me. It makes me happy.

When I signed for Real Madrid, it was like a dream.

I get depressed when things are not right.

I have to look for my happiness, and that is being out on the pitch, playing well, and scoring goals. That makes me happy.

If you ask my one regret, it is that I could not bring those City fans a trophy. That's the only thing that leaves me a little sad.

I play for the love of football, not for the money.

There was an image of me as a party guy. And yes, I liked to party.

Barcelona are a great club, and Brazilians have always done well there.

I truly dedicate myself to my club.

I feel really sorry for the way I left Madrid, but the fans don't always understand what happens in these cases.

Deco is a very skillful player. He thinks very fast on the pitch.

It is an honour that a coach like Guardiola speaks highly of me, for him to rate me as highly as I have read that he does. I genuinely appreciate it - from the bottom of my heart.

I want to stay at Real Madrid for a long time.

In football, you know anything can happen and that everything can change from minute to minute.

When you leave Real Madrid - a famous club worldwide - it's normal to get criticism.

I play football like I dance.

I do think I fulfilled my potential.

For me, you can only be content when you're champions. You can only be content with winning away.

Italy was the hardest league to score goals in. Those guys just love defending.

It's no good if you are at a so-called best team, but you sit on a bench.

When you hire Sam Jackson, he'll figure out the character, and he'll figure out the character's look, and he'll provide it to you. With Sam Jackson, you basically yell 'action', you go get a sandwich, and you come back and yell 'cut.'

I loved going to the movies, especially when I was a teenager in the seventies. How couldn't you in what was perhaps the greatest era of auteur cinema?

The fight to get a shield law barring the government from being able to jail journalists is itself a non-partisan battle.

I think that most of the young officers I know are leftists and liberals and Democrats. And the reason is this: All of our soldiers, the men that work for us directly, are minorities - blacks or Latinos. And we empathize with them. Our job is to advise them and help them.

Take a look at Mila Kunis. When you see her performance in 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall,' you see a beauty there, and also a sadness.

Whenever you make a movie, when it's done, as a filmmaker, you never sit there and say, 'Boy, I really got that right.' It's, 'Where did I screw up?'

The truth is that I have never created a president to push a political point of view. I am often looking to create aspirational characters; that's true. But, you know, in the end, it is really up to the actor in front of the presidential seal to decide exactly what kind of president you're going to get.

Former soldiers will almost always gravitate to the anti-war party. This happens for obvious reasons. The men who have been in battle tend not to romanticize it and tend not to take it flippantly.

Anything about Iraq is a death sentence at the box office... You can't make movies about an unpopular war while the war is still going on - people don't want to pay to get depressed, though they sometimes will go to movies to get educated.

There was never a day at West Point where I didn't ask myself, 'Where would I put the camera?'

I'm sure when 'Midnight Cowboy' came out, it took a couple of minutes to get used to the voice and the look of Dustin Hoffman, or to even recognize that it was Dustin Hoffman.

Sam Peckinpah's movies probably say more about him than anybody's body of work says about that person. There are running themes in his films that I find eminently fascinating, disturbing, exhausting, and exhilarating.

There's a difference between 'political films' and 'films about Iraq.'

I think that maybe human beings are conditioned to violence.

I grew up with an infestation of politics. I'm just nuts about it. It's our form of gladiators in the arena, only they are not in quite as good a shape.

I remember watching movies like 'Fatal Attraction' and watching the audience go bananas at the end of the film.

He may not have been a good actor, and I personally don't think he was a good president, but I'll tell you this: Ronald Reagan was a helluva character.

I fell in love with 'Ben Hur' when I was 8 years old, and I just knew I had to be involved in movies, even if I was the guy who melted the butter on the popcorn.

I can't stand to see myself on TV.

I suppose when any movie dealing with politics is released, there is a knee-jerk assumption that it is propelled by a liberal agenda. That may be true most of the time, but not with 'Nothing but the Truth.'

I don't think I'm equipped enough to be giving anyone a civics lesson or any kind of message.

The point of remaking 'Straw Dogs' is not to replicate the philosophies of Sam Peckinpah at all. What made that film singular was the attitude that he brought to the characters. Oddly enough, that's the one thing that I really wanted to change.

'All the President's Men' is a movie that has a very personal place for me because it made me want to be a journalist, and then it made me want to be a filmmaker.

There are a lot of westerns that deal with people standing up for their principles, and that is the predominant theme that has been in my films.

I really like iconoclastic casting. I really do.

Every filmmaker wants to get their audience talking.

I believe Sam Peckinpah is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and I hold him in high regard.