I am persistent about everything I believe in. If there's a film I want to do, a record, a Broadway show - I do it. Everybody can hate it but I will still do it. I am fearless that way.

Every minute doing one thing is a minute not doing something else. Every choice is another choice not made another path grown over lost.

I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.

Relationships are the only thing that matter in business in life.

I just don't believe that you can't make anything happen. I think if something's good and you believe in it, and you care about it, and you give it love and nurture it, it's going to happen.

As soon as you feel comfortable, that's when it's time to start over.

If asked my philosophy, it would be simply this: Savor life, don't press too hard, don't worry too much.

Do not get attatched to the world as it is. Because the world is changing something new is coming.

I can do anything - but that doesn't mean I should do that. I need to enjoy what I do. I enjoy making movies.

It’s been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.

Liberace was Elton John and Lady Gaga before they even dreamed of it.

we deceive ourselves if we believe we can hold on to old models as "ideologies whimper off to a shallow grave in prolonged agony of people, institutions and cultures.

Night gets its own way in the end. The torches go out, the fire burns down to its internal organs, and the hall is charcoal and darkness.His mind shrinks as the heat dies, a ticking ember.

It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.

Imagine for a moment Napoleon I, to have borne the name of Jenkins, or Washington to have sustained the appellation of John Smith!

The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.

The only substance properly so called is the soul.

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too long about the egg I've just laid because I've got 5 more inside me pushing to get out.

True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.