Having to fight for the thing you want doesn't mean you deserve it any less.

People being tough with you doesn't mean they're villains.

People don't have to do things by half measures because they aren't getting paid for it. In fact, that's all the more reason to throw every ounce of passion you have behind it.

But here's the thing about crazy: It. Wants. Out.

I thrive in structure. I drown in chaos.

I love rules and I love following them, unless that rule is stupid.

What really happened doesn't matter. What matters is how we agree to remember it.

Living a life is not a choice but a duty, is our daily chore that we can't escape from it, unless you decide to enden it.

You don't share the things you're forced to share [on a movie set].

If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.

Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.

Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.

War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.

Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.