All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.

Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.

Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.

Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers.

The world would be a poorer place without Doctor Who.

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.

The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.

I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says.

My belief is that the music is always stronger than the performer: there is always something new, something we learn, whether at a performance or during a rehearsal.

To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness.

Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.

I cannot keep quiet even when I am a lone voice.

The thing about filming is that it can be the most banal experience because it's slow and there's a lot of waiting around.