I like getting carried away by what is happening and then decide each scene based on the actors, the set and the light.

The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.

I operate the camera, I always do it when I'm the director, and I like to approach it as a documentary, finding the images based on what happens, as it happens.

Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don’t, who will?

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.

Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.

The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon, but if you jump in, there's no longer the sun or the moon; there's the truth. Leonardo Sciascia

I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.

Don't be defined by your failures, be refined by them.

Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world