It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.

The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.

Birds are the first and the greatest performers.

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.

Anybody can Earn and Die, leaving a will and legacy. Only the courageous ones can give away all they have while they are Alive.

Funny, I don't particularly care for either "laws" or "order". Liberty is messy. Freedom yields imperfect results.

I wanted to become an engineer, or get a masters in business. But I had the opportunity to do films when I was about 25 and it was a great way to express myself.

If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what they're chasing.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.

Man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance.

I'm a big believer in the negligee, that nearly invisible screen standing between you and the object of your desire.

Wouldn't it be great if we didn't care who got the credit as long as the job got done?