You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm a gangster. If I want something, I'll grab it.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.

The greatest location in the world is the human face.

You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

People who are making films today are too concerned with mechanics - technical things instead of feeling.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

(Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.

You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.

It became normal for women on the internet to adopt gender-neutral or male screen names.

Fart for freedom, fart for liberty—and fart proudly.

I believe a person regardless of race should get the job.

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

Life proceeds amid an incessant network of signals.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

I was never the cool kid, I was never hot in high school. I was never popular. You don't have to be perfect and you don't have to be rich and you can still be successful.

Feminism is not a patch; it is a whole new pattern which can only be realized by weaving a new garment, seamless from top to bottom and multicolored from the beginning.