In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends.

Like everything else in life, these questions have no easy answers.

Somewhere between what is...and what can be...begs the question...what are you meant to be?

Today’s youngsters will unfortunately never know the thrills we experienced dubbing movies in the era of Rashomon.

I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.

Acting is pretending to be someone else.

For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.

We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.