The ghosts you chase you never catch.

Failure's a natural part of life.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

We make our own luck. I believed that, too. We chose our own fate. We controlled our own future. I knew what I wanted. I needed to go get it.

Don't wait for wisdom to come and rescue you, seek it daily.

you can get past a mistake, but it's much harder to get past being a cruel person.

You know a good board when you see one.

The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.

Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.

My wife has a black belt in shopping.

When you believe that you can do something that's when you can do it.

Tragedy--to fall in love with a face, and marry the whole woman.

I believe that UNICEF is the most important branch of the U.N.; they do exceptional work to help the neediest children around the world