I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.

I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I've always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.

I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions.

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.

What's my dilemma here? Am I making entertainment or am I making art? What am I saying? At the end of the day, cinema is entertainment for millions of people, but for me it's expression.

People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.

A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the great ones were perceived. Beneath them the earth turned, singing.

At the end of the day, that's what a family is - a group of different people who accept each other.

When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth.

Those who lift their hats shall see Nature as devout do God.

As you become more conscious of your body as eternity, a sense of ease, a fullness beyond description occurs.

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

Mankind ought to end its existence of its own will.

Doing common things uncommonly well.

The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

The gospel we preach must not be just something we hear from men or read from books or even conceived through our meditation. Unless it is delivered to us by God, it can serve no spiritual utility.