My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

Follow your own weird.

Give up smoking cold turkey. Start a diet in the next 5 min. Accept that job right away. Life can be beautiful without planning!

I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds.

It is very hard to stay in touch with our true identity because those who want our money, our time, and our energy profit more from our insecurity and fears than from our inner freedom.

Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.

It is a nice thing to be working and believing in my work again. I hope I can keep the drive. I only feel whole and well when it is this way.

I started watching some 'Doctor Who' recently on my own and got too scared. I had to watch it in the daytime - I'm pathetic.

You know give me choices that are truly different from one another, otherwise they don't regard them as meaningful choices.

A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game that they did when they were Little Leaguers.

He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.