It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Expressing authentic appreciation doesn’t cost you anything and the outcomes are simply wonderful.

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Perfectionism is slow death.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

They, who know no evil, will suspect none.

After you've done 60-something movies, you're always looking for something different.

The love of God has been described as the highest, noblest, strongest kind of love and the most joyous to the soul.

It seems to me that there are certain thoughts and vignettes and attitudes that I have always had the desire to represent.

Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.

The burden of the incommunicable.