Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.

The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.

I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant.

I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there.

I've done a lot of that kind of work before, anyway, and I was in good hands.

Death was a lens that would reveal things as they really were: what was important would assume its true importance what was unimportant would recede into the shadows.

I couldn't make it out - why you ever let me, I mean. I understand now. Things like that happen when you're in love with the wrong person. Worse things. Things you never forgive yourself for.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

Do not ignore inspiration, it is your guide to self discovery.

Ah, fool! faint heart fair lady ne'er could win.

If the simple positions of ballet are demonstrated straight on, they seem quite dull and lifeless, but when put on a diagonal, they begin to take on all kinds of possibilities.

We read often with as much talent as we write.

A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud.

We are human beings, not 'students' and 'teacher,' coming together and questioning, looking together, not having made up our minds about what we're looking at, but starting afresh.

It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature.