I see an incredible abuse of close-ups in many films these days. Why is that?

Instead of trying to modify what nature brought us, we embraced it.

Every time you start a movie is to explore with a director and if you can with the actors and with the other collaborators and try to figure out what's the best way to tell the specific story.

If I'm collaborating with an artist I like to give them my point of view and if they don't want to take any of my recommendations it's fine, but it's hard otherwise.

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.

'Pity without rigor would be cowardly egotism, mere sentimentality.'

The rough must always accompany the smooth. Without one or the other one learns nothing about oneself.

Don't let out your true behaviour in the public, even if you were born nasty, make others feel you were well bred.

The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.

Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.

There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.

Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.

Living well is an art that can be developed.

When I was doing stunts, I had lots of cuts on my body because of the chain. Even though everybody took care of me, I still got hurt.

The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others.