I'm an absolute fan of 1970s New York in films like 'Mean Streets' and 'Dog Day Afternoon.

You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or youll become empty.

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

I think it's very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies.

Everything goes by so fast that if you want to be a part of it, you need to go that fast. But because you go that fast, you don't lead the life you should lead.

You have to draw on your unconscious when you make a film - you can't worry about whether it's costing a lot of money.

I spent all my youth with horses.

Directing remains very psychological, and it takes a lot of time and reflection. When you're an actor, it takes less time, and you can express yourself physically.

I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'

Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.

It's physically and psychologically exhausting to make a film.

The power of faith can be a strong force, but the power of knowing is even stronger. ☥

The apparent goal of the journey is simply the carrot the universe dangles before you to get you to learn the lessons the adventure yields.

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.

I'm pretty minimal when it comes to my beauty routine and always have been.

I took a step back. "Here." He plunked his wet hat on my head. "Don't go anywhere," he told me, then turned away.

Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide!

If you count all fights like everybody else does, including Rickson, who says he has 400 fights; if you count like that, I have a million.

Chin up, shoulders back. Let ‘em know you’re here. #ProudOfWhoYouAre

There are no greater adversaries than yin and yang, because nothing in Heaven or on Earth escapes them. But it is not yin and yang that do this, it is your heart that makes it so.