I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: "Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar."

The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

Western films don't do very well in India.

Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself

Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.

I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.

All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

Every sport pretends to be literature. . .

I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it.

I don't see myself as legendary. If you want a legend, talk about someone like Duke Kahanamoku.

Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.

Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.

Easy believeism dishonors the blood and prostitutes the altar. We must alter the altar, for the altar is a place to die on. Let those who will not pay this price leave it alone!

Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference

Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid today as it was fifty years ago.

I made Man with too many faults. Yet I love him. And if he wishes, I have a home above for him.