And I don't want to use my troubles as an example of what to do and what not to do.

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.

I was fortunate to be connected with bands who later became pioneers for certain genres of music scenes. And my art went along with them for that ride and became associated with it.

I've never heard anybody [of president's candidates] talk about the poorly educated.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play any instruments.

I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art.

Consciousness is the stone that creates the waves in a sea of nothing

Limiting the designation of marriage to a union 'between a man and a woman' is unconstitutional and must be stricken from the statute.

That's why my attitude, even on my larger-scale movies, is to make them cheap. The less these things cost, the better for everybody.

The life of an actor can be very enviable.