I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Wonder is our need today, not information.

Get matured or call yourself a grandparent. Age never revised. Childish is not an excuse.

You can be the coldest rapper, but if you're not known, you're nobody.

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from Influence.

I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.

Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

I myself have never been concerned with whether we are considered known or unknown. It's no problem of ours.

I'm a liar. And I can't stop thinking about boys.

Before you go to sleep, run over your personal world mentally and thank God for everyone and everything.