You can't always rely on taking the pain. You need to learn to avoid it.

If we win by losing ourselves, by losing what we were fighting for, then we never really win.

I can't change it now, and besides, I like who those years made me into,

Only when you are secure enough not to fear immediate survival can you display creative intelligence in anything you do.

No magnetic wombats, no flying hyenas, no catfish masquerading as samurai, and, MOST CERTAINLY, no Duku jam!

Interest makes some people blind and others quick-sighted.

Being remembered, and remembered so kindly, touched him more than he would have thought possible.

Some people get attached to their practice. They get good at it, but even becoming a good meditator can become a hindrance.

When I read a film script, I kind of see it in my head and I see the moments that shape what I understand the character to be. There's very little time for rehearsal.

Sometimes, indeed often, we work on a theme with an unformed idea, and, when it has passed through the process, its final result is something we could never have predicted when we commenced.

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.

It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.