No one ever fell in love gracefully.

Give me a strong back, over a soft heart.

And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog.

Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times.

You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons.

Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.

The lower your decolletage, the less the need for conversation.

There are moments on stage when everything comes together. Then the kid in the front row coughs.

If you forget your lines, you had better mumble with conviction.

Love shouldn't be comfortable.

One should never fight for a country. One should fight, if one has to, for what one believes to be right. A country is only as good as its leading citizens.

Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.

Under no circumstances should you lose hope.

I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live in such a way that I can maintain a direct response to ideas.

Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.

Composition and choreography were always very important to me and I choreographed for my earliest training.

We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments.

I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love.

I think it takes a lot of courage to be able to direct a film. If you have that courage and that vision together, and you pick the cast that you believe will achieve your vision, you win.

Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.