The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.

I made 5,127 prototypes of my vaccum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That’s how I came up with a solution. So I don’t mind failure.

What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.

Everyone gets knocked back, no one rises smoothly to the top without hindrance. The ones who succeed are those who say, right, let’s give it another go.

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don't expect it to be easy or even noticed.

Anyone who takes drugs should be hammered.

The country can't get well if the people are sick. And the people are sick.

I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

I never worry about what they think about me. Because I feel so far away from what my Italian colleagues have done that I almost automatically become an isolated director.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

I've never hit a woman in my life. Not even my own mother.