Each person needs different limits to set him or her free. Finding yours is what practice is all about.

Music is the best way for me to say I love you.

People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness.

I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain!

It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on.

There's the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise.

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed.

HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood.

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

To listen is to be vulnerable. You allow something outside your body to come inside. To be open and impressionable, to hear everything, is dangerous. You can be damaged all too easily.

You have to grow. You have to be. You have to love yourself unconditionally.

I wanted to be scared again ... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn the only way I feel challenged.

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

The only unifying thought is one of LOVE.

The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.

The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.

Live beyond your means, then you're forced to work hard, you have to succeed.

After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.

I kind of like the challenge of jumping into totally different spaces and styles and figuring out how to fit in.

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