I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

Failure's a natural part of life.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

If I really wanted to say or ask anything important (to her imposing father) I could not trust my tongue to get it right.

The diversity of our connections outside our particular tribe is directly proportionate to our ability to listen, learn and love.

If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.

There is so much oil now in the Gulf of Mexico, and you can thank the folks of British Petroleum for this, so much oil in the Gulf, you can now park on it.

People always think I’m dainty when they meet me, but I’m really not. I’m very German – we’re not made out of sugar.

If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail, If you can't be the sun, be a star; It isn't by size that you win or you fail- Be the best of whatever you are.

Facts, even false ones, cannot be copyrighted.

Doesn't it seem sometimes that the whole world's uphill but at least we know the way back will be easy.

In short, whoever you may be, To this conclusion you'll agree, When every one is somebodee, Then no one's anybody!