I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.

I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead. They said all I was good for was playing Indians.

They say that age kills the fire inside of a man, that he hears Death coming, he opens the door and says, "Come in, give me rest!" That is a pack of goddam lies.

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.

I have a son in Barcelona whom I am madly in love with.

Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent.

I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.

Will no man ever do something without a why, just like that, for the hell of it?

A big talent steals, a small talent borrows.

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids.

I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.

On Pilgrim's Progress: “I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colors.

I realize parenting is hard and boring at times and a four-hour break would be super, but this is the job we signed up for. Some days it sucks, but most days it's great.

Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.

In Cuba we are building a socialist society and we could say we are on the verge of a communist society which is hard to achieve, very hard to achieve, but is a longing worth fighting for.

When I sing or play music, I'm able to relieve myself of whatever it is that I'm struggling with.

The way I go about making a movie... even the ones that are interview-driven, I go into them not knowing what's going to happen, and feeling my way through.

How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.

In other words to live Eternal Life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ is with him, and with each other as Christ is with us.

Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.