The finished product is not finished when the actor is. The work is completed by a pair of shears.

Shadow conceals—light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art.

There are some things which cannot be learned, though they can be studied. Among them are the laws of art—and the lawlessness of it, as well.

A shaft of white light used properly can be far more effective than all the color in the world used indiscriminately.

The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. That way they remember you.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Rachel: You're a half-blood, too?Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about?Rachel: Okay. Hey, everybody! These two aren't human! They're half Greek god!...They don't seem to care.

In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense

If God exists at all, it exists in the pants of a man and woman, not otherwise

The soul is the immortal part of us. It recycles, over and over again from what I've seen, but it never dies. We're meant to strive beyond the physical world, not... not settle for it and only it.

Learning is as much an art as teaching

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.

The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth!

It's difficult to be at events with a room full of women who weigh half as much as you do.

Data can't speak for itself; it's up to you to give it a voice. Try to speak truthfully.