I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.

Failure's a natural part of life.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands

As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

Music is essentially useless, as life is.

We may be finished with the past but the past is not finished with us.

Rest and play, are as vital to our health as nutrition and exercise

Self is the perception of perception. Beyond self there's no perception of perception.

No security guard can stop a refrigerator falling off a skyscraper.

There is a saying that every single person in the world has something to teach you. So the more people I get to work with, the more I can learn and the better actor I will become.

Magick, in it's own way, is a science of psychology because it uses the power of the mind to bring forth change in one's life.

Embrace the struggle and let it make you stronger. It won't last forever.