Great actors come with depth about how their character sees the world, and they completely defend it. They could defend it in a court of law, down to the reason the patient deserved this.

Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.

You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

If you stumble, you get back up. If you fall off the wagon, you have the next go at it. And then the next. And the next. And the next.

Life is the journey between darkness of the womb and darkness of the grave.

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass

Sometimes I just want to gobble you whole, eat you alive. You're so gorgeous. You're so beautiful.

Chess is for everybody.

I want Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D played at my funeral. If it isn't I shall jolly well want to know why.

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.

Love is the creative fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame.

The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.