I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't.

I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.

Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.

At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.

Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly.

Beauty is less important than quality.

Im one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. Im just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.

There was confusion since I stood here 35 years ago.

Write it down in your own handwriting.

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom.When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies.Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

An attractive woman becomes beautiful when she's happy and in love.

If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.

Why would I ever get cocky? I'm not saving anybody's life.

If I depended on the critics' judgment and recognition, I'd never have gone into the motion-picture business.

When the sun sets beautifully, other beauties rise. Nature is a theatre; when one great player leaves the scene, another great player immediately enters. The play always continues excellently.

I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.