Don't Ask Me Nothing About Nothing, I Just Might Tell You the Truth

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

Courage is a warrior, wisdom is a sage, virtue is a priest, and love is poet.

We are most alive when we're in love.

I just love cars I've been like that since I was a kid. It's an infatuation because we grew up poor. Cars was something we were always trying to get.

I got a dream that's worth more than my reality.

Don't worry about what other people are doing. Worry about what you're doing.

To interpret, to quote – yet only to have witnesses, also friends.

In general, I have some precise ideas about everything, because the film is completed in my head before we ever start shooting. With casting, I am always present, even for the smallest character.

The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there's a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business man and this stereotype covers and obscures all the facts.

The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.