My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.

It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.

I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something

People ultimately get what they deserve on TV. What people end up watching is what the advertising end up glomming onto and promoting.

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.

Above all else , the devil can not stand to be mocked.

The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.

I had a very good package for Phoenix, but at other tracks we do not have the power. The Brazilian Grand Prix was maybe closer to the reality.

It's hard when you make a film from a book that so many people love, because there's no way to get the entire story into a two-hour movie. But I was pleased with the reaction [for Kite Runner].

When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories!

Not to have a big head about it, but people love me.

I don't feel that America has a black dude right now. I'm that dude.