I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

Art is a sense of magic.

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?

What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black.

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people can't see.

There are a lot of movies made for nobody.

I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.

If only, then, I had been more living out of the present--such a beautiful word...present. The sense of it being, now to me, more beautiful than 'to look forward.

To be mindful entails examining the path we are traveling & making choices that alleviate suffering & bring happiness to ourselves & those around us.

True beauty isn't what you put on your face

The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.

Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.

Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.

Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.

With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.

Newspapers don't write enough about serious religious issues.

In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.