Doubt is a central factor all the time. There's always the doubt: What the hell am I doing out here in the middle of the woods, all alone, painting?

Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.

I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.

We're antithetical. You use your mind one way; I use mine another. I recognize what you're doing, but I can't imagine it.

What you think of is what you will attract to your life.

3 people will leave you alone, at any point in your life.1. The one who don’t Love you. 2. The one who don’t Trust u or who don't Believe on you.3. The one who don’t have Respect for you.

Despite differences of faith or even the occasional collisions between them, Egypt is united.

It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them.

Every time I make a movie, I'm prepared for it to become influential and career-defining - but I have no control over these things.

I still like to make crank calls.

The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to do something that will appeal at home and abroad.

It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

We're here for such a short time. When your great-great-grandkids study history, don't you want them to be proud that you were part of the solution?

Life sometimes gives you a second chance.