Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie

Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

Every interaction is an opportunity to learn, Only if we are interested in improving rather than proving.

I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't fame or glamour, none of the things I used to dream about, it's the ability to endure.

At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana.

So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.

Newspapers should have no friends.

Don't judge anyone but don't trust anyone.

Work in nightclubs was interesting. There were interesting people and places, but by and large, the commercial music experience.

I am a cookbook fanatic.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

You're flying Buzz! No Woody we're falling in style!