Well, I think it can be quite helpful to be working on a character who actually existed, historically. Of course, you might have material to study and help you create the character.

I think I would never be ready to do a regular job. I couldn’t go to the office every day at the same hour. I love my life. This freedom.

The most challenging thing is how to portray someone that is so well known that people still recall him in a very precise way.

I love good food. I’m an epicurean, that’s for sure. … But I am not really a good cook.

I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

I think for every artist it's important to always keep this amount of doubt until the very last day of shooting.

For me, cinema becomes grandiose when it imposes its own mythology and its own reality.

As for a fashion designer, you have those very precise deadlines to keep so you have to renew yourself constantly every three or six months. When you think about it, it's so intense.

If you decide to direct a film, it's because you have something to say, something to show to the audience.

Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.

I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

It's not a question of can or can't. There are some things in life you just do.

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.

Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.

Go directly to work' means... when an idea strikes, you drop everything and when your work bell tolls, you answer it.

Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

If you have time-release pills, you could have time-release expanding cheesecakes.

I initially signed up for Twitter just to do jokes I wasn't going to do in my stand-up routine.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.

A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldnt have happened without the social changes.