Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

I wanted to be an actor my whole young life. My dad was an actor, obviously - he won an Academy Award, but I had no idea what was involved. I had all the wrong ideas about acting.

I don't run a woman government. I run a government of people.

Be good to others, but don't expect a lot of gratitude in this world. Remember that good deeds are seldom remembered and bad deeds are seldom forgotten.

I'm someone who loves to play. I make films so I can have fun with the characters.

...to be paid for one's joy is to steal.

We've done a miserable job of preparing people for today's world, let alone tomorrow's.

The asymmetries of power that have shaped relations between the West and the rest of the world also exist in the realm of literary criticism.

I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity.

Immortals are, by definition, immortal. End of story.