Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people!

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

We think too much and feel too little.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

Guilt at least has a purpose

Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my wife at the Academy Awards, we both let the moment just go.

I am a man of few words, but many riddles.

There's the gift, there's the spirit, and there's the work-all three have to come together. If one of those things is off, it can stop you from becoming who you were meant to be.

Failure is the foundation of success: success is the lurking place of failure.

People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.

Every person who dedicates his or her life to something that belongs to the greater good is very meaningful.

Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got the better of him.

I've always loved Ibanez guitars, and in particular 7 strings.

I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.