People who are making films today are too concerned with mechanics - technical things instead of feeling.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.

The greatest location in the world is the human face.

You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

(Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.

You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm a gangster. If I want something, I'll grab it.

You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.

Every adversity brings new experiences and new lessons.

There is a case and a strong case for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.

It's very scary to allow the world to see you.

I don't get this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired.

Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits almost without resistance to the domineering power.

When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence.

Im an ambassador for Medical Detection dogs.

The protestant world is in great need of examples (like these) that will beckon us to the fullness of God.

When I was working with Stanley Kubrick [on "Eyes Wide Shut"], he would always say, "You never tell the audience what to feel. Let them choose to have their responses."