I used to use business to make money. But I've learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in.

Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines.

The pure modernist is merely a snob

None so deaf as those that will not hear.

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.

I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

The way the world sees women vs. men is a subject that really interests me.

I used to be a window cleaner. I got fired because I sometimes liked to drink the soapy water.

Life may be miraculous in its unlikelihood in the universe, but it would be a fallacy to suggest that its rareness makes it inextinguishable.

A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which caused it to exist.

The Italians . . . you can't find one who is honest.

Everything here must be done twice as no one can do it right the first time.