The theater is so disappointing, really, that it's hard to go again and again. It's just too heartbreaking. I'd rather watch football or play a game or read.

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.

Success is getting what you want

Strength ebbed and flowed, but brittle would break.

The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.

Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.

Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.

You only get one chance at life, not two! Don't joke around with your own life.

In the end, the truth finds a way to surface even if you don't want it to.

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

I have a family to feed.

Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide.