All the horror is in just this -- that there is no horror. . . .

I am a wanderer passionately in love with life.

I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.

Self-esteem, self confidence

When it hurts, don’t be afraid to say ouch!

There are two kinds of statistics the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.

All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than England manager Sven Goran Eriksson.

To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.

I am very healthy. Career wise, even old men get to be in movies. So as long as I am healthy, I will continue to make movies.

We're just like a movie based on a book-- almost, but not quite as good.