I don't remember my life before I had children.

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.

All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

I like marriage. The idea.

I don't like all this business stuff. I like stocks.

In other words, a considerable portion of your extraordinary gift comes from the simple fact that you very much want to do good." -Master George

A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own

Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.

Life-complication Theory: Given a choice between an easy solution and a complicated one, the loser will usually opt to travel the complicated path. Don't ignore a solution just because it's simple!

Until mankind realizes that there is, in truth, no good, and there is, in truth, no evil-there will be no peace.

Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.