My opinion changes rapidly - one minute I can think it is very good and the next time I look at it, I see all the flaws and weaknesses therein.

Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them

If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.

Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair.

Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium.

Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can't light the torch of another if yours isn't burning.

I wanted to create something that broke rules and made women feel confident and empowered.

The more technology becomes complicated inside, the more it has to be simple outside.

Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.

I tell people to frame the picture. Make the greatest, most perfect composition you can . . . and then take a step forward. It skews it a bit and makes it more interesting.

I'm always wearing a Nebraska hat. Most of the time I'm wearing something that's got a Husker something on it. I make sure I have it on TV but I have it regularly.

I am not married to any particular genre. I am more interested in projects that capture my imagination and move me in a way that I can spend a year of my life working on it.

[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, Yet Grace must still look so.

I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.