I don't buy diamonds, I don't buy cars, but I enjoy travelling. I'm not a very possessive person as far as things go.

A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

Do or do not. There is no try. Only do.

Once you get a character, you lock it in your heart - it's there.

First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person.

In a stage play, you kill the leads and they come out for a bow - in a movie, they don't come out for a bow, they're dead.

I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy to deep, dark, brooding drama, to thriller. I just want to go back and forth.

Impossible to see, the future is.

I've done TV for tons and tons of years, so I'm not crazy about doing more TV, but with films, all I want to do are different projects that aren't all the same.

I just want to do good work. That's all I want to do. I don't have big aspirations like being the President of the United States, I just want to do good work. That's all.

Our job as directors is to entertain an audience, it's not just to do it for the director. You might as well sit in a white room and look at the movie for the rest of your life - it's ridiculous.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.

In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.

Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice.

I think we, sometimes, try to fill a void with so many other things that we make the wound deeper & prevent it from ever healing properly.

Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.

... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.

there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all.