One of the biggest problems of our contemporary civilization is that there's been an interruption of transmission. People have no past in their present.

I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be uplifted in some sort of spiritual elevation.

When you see people on the street, they're living in their phones. They aren't living where they are - they haven't got the energy of the past. And so it's something that needs to be reestablished.

I work very hard to achieve simplicity, which is never natural, never spontaneous. It's always obtained at the price of a great effort.

I don't like things to be overcharged, because otherwise everyone starts getting nervous. I try to be very well organized. When I write the script, everything is already in there, like the decoupage.

What I was trying to say, ” he whispered, “is that I see you in everything. There isn’t a word for you that means enough, because you’re everything to me.

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are.

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.

They say he's an intelligent man, right? Speaks five languages! I've got a 15-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who speaks five languages!

You have to understand how bad I wanted to be a comedian, how much I loved doing it. I still can't believe I get to do this for a living and have people come up and want to see me.

I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.

The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer coming at it in the background.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes.

The sales department isn’t the whole company, but the whole company better be the sales department.

Keep pressure on Iran, because pressure works.