It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

To all you parents out there, don't make your little girls, or little boys, so thirsty for love that they will want to drink water that will poison them.

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.

It may be providence's will that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free.

Donald Trump is the most dangerous person to run for president in the modern history of America.

Lasting change is a series of compromises.

What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!

Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music.

If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights, we give the socialists a freer hand to attack our property.

Miracle Max: Have fun stormin' da castle. Valerie: Think it'll work? Miracle Max: It would take a miracle.

Music is something that even when you close your eyes it gets into your body.