Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself.

There are things which are without answers, and there is nobody who can explain them. Either we feel them and sense them, or not. Sometimes we just give up and carry on.

The most important thing for me is the image, not the thought.

Observing life, living through it. As you experience life some events call upon you to suffer through them and that's what brings inspiration.

Everything that fed my energy and imagination is something that I'm disinclined to speak about.

What I know is that I am honest about my films, and my films are honest about reality. The stories themselves dictate the way that they should be told.

I knew, starting in 10th grade, I wanted to be in theater and an actor. I went to acting school in Siberia, but there was no future there - and I was consumed with ambition.

Death was the judge. The Reapers were the executioners. Death was the one who decided who the Reapers would visit and exact their justice.

The mind is an innovation engine of any human progress, but also the root cause of almost all human problems.

The Pilgrims believed beer was an unalloyed good, a 'good creature of God.' People who did not drink were suspect and 'crank-brained.

I know the consequences, Manon, ” Ilyse conceded. “I know the fate you endured might one day be my own. But I refuse to be a prisoner for the rest of my life.

Even people's dreams don't match the reality of my life. I don't dream, I set goals and accomplish them.

I've been very, very successful. It's very satisfying to me.

The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion will live here in only the most temporary way.

I'm not the kind of actor who runs around and insists on being called Stravinsky by everybody, and my family has to call me Igor. I'm not that kind of actor. I think that's pretentious.

I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.

...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments.