Hurting someone will not impress them. Intelligence requires empathy to work. Water is wet. The sky is pink through these rose-tinted glasses.

You’re either the one that creates the automation or you’re getting automated.

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home.

He must not laugh at his own wheeze: a snuff box has no right to sneeze.

That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.

When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say 'wow, that was an adventure,' not 'wow, I sure felt safe.'

The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

I think by being happy it actually affects the way that you look too.

Wherever you decide to go, proceed with your mind.

I am easily persuaded to continue to have fun.

Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.

I don't want to get involved in the racial situation at the expense of losing fans. I wouldn't say anything too strong but I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.

For things to change, you've got to change. For things to get better, you've got to get better.

Only the holy spirit, the spirit of the lord, can transform us.

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.