It's one thing to think you're worthless, and quite another for somebody else to tell you that you are.

You should never start something when you haven't finished the last thing. People feel used that way.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

You’ve seen the movies. Bad guy always comes back.

My country and me, we are part of this region, we're not separated. We cannot discuss it as Syria or as me ; it should be as part, as a whole, as comprehensive. That's how we have to look at it.

Negative energy that comes at you in some form is energy that can be turned around - to defeat an opponent and lift you up.

Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.

I am really accessible.

Films are hard to make and I think the word indulge really leads one to believe that it's an easy sort of business and it's really extremely difficult.

It's surprising how soon you can get used to having money. It's much easier than getting used to not having it.