Because when all you have is the past, it's hard to let it go.

Your future is your own again. And I consider that to be a happy ending to the story.

Sometimes wearing a mask is the best way to show our true selves.

Somehow difficulties are easier to endure when you know your dream is waiting for you at the end.

You gotta keep things moving. If leaving behind the past means you can have a better future, then, sure, why not?

An unanticipated destination, perhaps, but you must admit,all the best journeys take unexpected detours.

I want pictures like these. The kind that can capture a moment, make it real, make it last. I need pictures that do more than reflect. I need pictures that are truth.

Be sure of your heart before you speak.

Ah, but art and trouble go hand in hand. If you cannot be troubled to create art from your heart, then your art will never trouble the heart of others.

Make your own decisions. Make your own choices.

I try to make choices for my own life. And I try to make those choices count.

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.

Much that may seem evil can be good.

Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.

Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.

I'd say 95 percent of my audience was white. They were mostly kind of older hipster folks like myself.

The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.

I'm quite a physical person and I gesticulate a lot, which can be a problem when you're in Hollywood and they do everything in a minimalist way.

They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.

Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around.