Everything that fed my energy and imagination is something that I'm disinclined to speak about.

There are things which are without answers, and there is nobody who can explain them. Either we feel them and sense them, or not. Sometimes we just give up and carry on.

The most important thing for me is the image, not the thought.

Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself.

Observing life, living through it. As you experience life some events call upon you to suffer through them and that's what brings inspiration.

What I know is that I am honest about my films, and my films are honest about reality. The stories themselves dictate the way that they should be told.

I knew, starting in 10th grade, I wanted to be in theater and an actor. I went to acting school in Siberia, but there was no future there - and I was consumed with ambition.

Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.

If every Christian will have an active civil position, he can become a reformer in his country

An individual who delights at all in the beauty of language does well to avoid becoming an attorney or a legislator.

I always took 'Coronation Street' a year at a time anyway. It was the 50th anniversary I'd been there five years. It just felt right to leave.

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracles await.

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

Technology is spurring innovation, and the so-called "demographic dividend" has brought change.

You don't need someone to tell you what to do. You know what you need to do. Do it.