He wasn't good with this sort of thing - with the back-and-forth dance between man and woman. He wasn't even sure if they were dancing, or if she was merely being polite.

I fear that one day I will no longer understand desperation, and with that, I will slowly stop listening to what others have to say.

I assumed I would be better off telling you about this, rather than waiting for the entire thing to blow up in my face.

The dog looked up in entreaty. Liquid brown eyes begged: Take me with you. I’ll be good. Oh, the lies that dogs told.

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it... that's the skill of the painter, how you finally know when it's done.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.

To be honest, I miss the old Hollywood way of having some mystique about the star.

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

I was against impunity when it comes to human rights violations. But many of us African leaders now want to leave the Rome Statute as soon as possible because of this Western arrogance.