I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

The amazing feeling of being alive beautifully conquers the fear of death

RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.

The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.

To begin your commitment to new perceptions, start by paying attention to attack thoughts toward yourself and others.

I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I'm a team player.

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

They told me never fall in love, It never works out in your favor. You way too young and right now that's just human nature.

I certainly believe that creativity must be an experience. If I'm to steal time away from people, we should give them something to react to.

I'm basically a poetry scholar, and I'm happier here in my studio with my row of Chinese dictionaries than I am, frankly, at Lincoln Center.

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