I like working among ‘creative clutter’. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement.

Study the nature around you, but also within you.

The world grows ever complex. More urban. Less peaceful.

Have courage to go your own way and fulfil the dreams that are unique and important to you.

People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out.

It is possible to be happy and successful by living on one’s own terms.

In the dream world, anything is possible. It requires a fertile imagination, and a desire to explore the half-light between the known and the unknown.

Only the present exists. The past is gone, and the future has not yet happened. There is only ever time present.

Water creates so much beauty, life and mystery.

Water is intrinsically linked to the mystery and excitement of discovering new worlds.

As a child I would play with such imagination that the ‘real’ world was never real at all. It was full of mystery, adventure and possibility.

Her smile was like a swift light passing across a darkened room.("Hair")

Remember it is as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free.

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.

It is easy to discover what another has discovered before.

Every movie I've ever made has just kind of come together.

It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating.

Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives.

In Rome, I loved seeing the Caravaggios. There are churches in Rome that have Caravaggios, and there's one, not far from Piazza Navona, that has the best, I think: St. Matthew with the money.

Banana Splits for Breakfast. I think I ate about five.