Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.

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.

Fear will paralyze you and prohibit growth

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

I don't have problems with my weight, I don't change weight but I think when you're gaining in age your position has to be beautiful.

What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!

Love is perfect kindness.

Set honor in one eye and death in th' other, and I will look on both indifferently. I love then name of honor more than I fear death.

You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable. (In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz)

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

My choreography suits men very well, and the women who can do it are damn hard, strong dancers.