I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

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.

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

Tell me, Lothaire, I want to know. Convince me why I should love you.”“Because any other female would!

Of whom the world was not worthy.

The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.

One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

God then made the first woman, not directly out of his own substance, but from Adam's rib. Her purpose was to serve man.

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

The best time to set up a new discipline is when the idea is strong.

Pharoahe Monch is like an eloquent linguistics professor moonlighting as a rhyme serial killer terrorist, challenging the listeners' I.Q. while daring him or her to keep up.

Things work in spite of me sometimes.