I'd say the film to avoid is a director's second film, particularly if his first film was a big success. The second film is where you've really needed to have learned something.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

When the rose opens its heart, you will smell the fragrance of its soul.

When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.

Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return?

Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.

I can't maintain the body of a 16-year-old anymore. That's just a really boring life to me. You really just cannot do anything fun, ever.

I work with a lot of women and yeah I see totally different... My two sisters were different, I have two daughters that are pretty different.

Ocean privilege does not exist anymore. The world is small. We cannot rely on distance anymore.

You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending.

Of course we fight. What sisters don't battle?

Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.