I would say that awards are for children. Because children need a tangible representation of their achievement. And as adults, you have to settle for the respect and admiration of your peers.

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

Exactly one day in your life your kid will ski as good as you do. The next day, he'll ski better than you.

If you don't do it this year, you'll just be one year older when you do.

A pair of skis are the ultimate transformation to freedom

You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon.

Gravity is love and every turn is a leap of faith.

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

When God calls a man He entrust something to him

New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.

If you don't think that you're the best, how do you become the best?

During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.

No sausage?" he asked. Apparently my pork consumption habits were a matter of public record.

Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out.

I am very grateful to our people who appreciate my work and for their support, as without that support it would have been impossible to get anything done.