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

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.

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 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.

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

You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two different, but still flat, dimensions as a person. But that night you turned out to be real.

Things do not need especialities to become special, just understand them as special and they will be.

Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree.

If Christ be anything he must be everything. O rest not till love and faith in Jesus be the master passions of your soul!

If we do not know who the customer is, we do not know what quality is.

There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.

Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible-reading.

I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record - everything stinks - and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart.

Don't try and fit your faith into your busy schedule, build your schedule around your faith.

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.