I've been thrown out of schools and fired from jobs. I don't want to work. I can honestly say I haven't done an honest day's work in my life.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

You have to create the life you want.

I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.

If God's people are to be living examples of one thing, that thing ought to be - it must be - compassion.

Just as rust, which arose from the iron itself, wears out the iron, likewise, performing an action without examination would destroy us by projecting us into a negative state of existence.

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

In my walks of life, I've understood that it takes more than one person to think of achieving a goal, and it takes more than one or two players, to get you out of the position you're in.

The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.

Marvelous are the innocent.