I must create the world in order to breathe in the world; I don't exist unless I create.

I am interested in circulating past iconography in the present in order to get to the future.

We've fallen into a fin-de-siecle period of crisis in which people believe only the things they see right in front of them

Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgiveness. Miracles. We simply retell the stories in the language of our generation.

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .

When you're playing cards you can't constantly think about what the money costs you in the real world. You can't be constantly concerned about that if you want to be successful.

I didn't want to do 'Casino Royale' when they told me to audition. I said no. Then they sent me the script, and I thought it was actually very interesting - and I had no other work at the time.

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

The action of giving is in a certain vibratory level, meaning giving exists in a certain plane of consciousness.

I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.