Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.

It is possible for you to be paid your worth and at the same time be passionate about what you do.

Love, is sometimes a simpler form of slowly dying, it's like a bullet that ricochets off time's walls of desire, waiting to hit that picture perfect heart of regrets.

...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead.

There is no decision to be more or less comic. I don't feel more or less humorous in my day-to-day. These things are accidental.

When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick.

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

It's really hard to stay healthy over the long term of making a movie so that's why those things matter when you're trying to keep your health, literally.

Wes Craven is a wonderful friend, and we had a really good time together.

Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but without art we die of boredom.

It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom.