Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?

All of the world's religions have important things to teach us, and they are not as different from each other as some would have you believe.

I don't believe we can get very far, with leaders who write off half the nation as a bunch of victims who never take responsibility for their own lives.

Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing.

Love is a collection of moments where you were really there with somebody. A child, a lover, a friend, yourself.

I always try to choose material that I would want to go and see. I don't choose movies anymore to be in that other people wouldn't want to see.

Those who run away from the reality will eventually get run over by it!

There have been innumerable films about film-making, but Otto e Mezzo was a film about the processes of thinking about making a film -- certainly the most enjoyable part of any cinema creation.

The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.

I didn't understand 3-D in the fifties and I can't say I get it now either. I just don't see what the big deal is.

I can talk about Jane Austen until the cows come home.