I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.

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.

Anytime destruction of another is needed in order to advance one's own aims or goals, then the goals need to be reevaluated.

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

I wasn't part of any sixties movement. I'm skeptical of movements. I'm part of the times that I'm in.

The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

I want my music to leave an indelible mark.

. . . I know, by sad experience, with what difficulty a mind, weakened by long and uninterrupted suffering, admits hope, much less assurance.

It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law And the sin is in relation to the sinner.

I think it's real important to enjoy what you do, have fun with it and not to put the pressure on yourself of everyone watching.

We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.