I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

The moment you learn to separate your wants from your needs, your vision becomes clearer.

I'm getting paid to wake up America every morning!

In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.

I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.

So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.

Yasser Arafat remains in stable condition after dying in a Paris hospital.

If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.

The purpose of life is to matter and be ever mindful of the opportunities that we can both individually and collectively provide for others.

My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth.

Now everyone is prouder and poorer