Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.

I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

I'm just a demon that means well. Freelance for God, but do the work of Satan.

The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

The fears of what may come to pass, I cast them all away, Among the clover scented grass, Among the new-mown hay.

There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.

Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.

Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

People are amazed that I do comedy. I always did comedy.