What are eight million dollars compared to the love of eight million Cubans?

The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

How can I ask people who work for me to travel cheaply if I am traveling in luxury?

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

My dream is to one day own a country house on the shore in England, have gotten married, wipe some debt off and get a few more good films.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing.

In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'