Authority is conferred by position, not character.

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

Sounds like you're trying to say that creation of new alternate worlds is a conscious decision.''I'm not trying to say it - I just said it.

You never know what's going to happen. That's why I like acting. It's precious to me to be able to live more than one life.

My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Faith is taking a step in the same direction that the evidence is pointing.

But I don't care what Megan Fox or Jessica Biel say: There are definite advantages to being the hottest girl on the planet. Number one was that I got paid for it. A lot.

What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.

Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.

You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.

I was raised in a family where cinema was a way of life. It was not only about making films, it was relationship, passion, love, everything at the same time.