Anything which retains interest is optimistic. When the characters become disinterested, it's pessimistic. Does that make sense?

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

Knowledge is strength.

I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.

...I lived for those long casual walks down the beach and the sight of her small footprints in the glistening wet sand...

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world.

I am. I think. I will.

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.

It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on the cross, not the Jews

The butterfly went to heaven and became a butterfly necktie.

Do every common act as a god should do it; speak every word as a god should speak it.