Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.

Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.

You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.

We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.

Fear punches holes in your eyes so that you don't see the future clearly. Faith enlarges your vision to behold your destiny.

Trusted relationships are the essence of a brand

In India there’s no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man’s face and you’ll find an old man’s mind.

English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.

Love is being able to carry each others circumstances and making it your own, even though you didn't play a role in its foundation.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere.

So I want to thank the Pentagon, the Soviet Union and the military-industrial complex from the bottom of my heart. Without them, I could never have become the man I am today.

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.