I think that being an artist is more an approach to life than an approach to work.

We live in a world where you can walk into a bookstore and get a how-to guide on just about anything. But no one tells you how to die with dignity. No one tells you how to go out like the winner.

I have the incredibly good fortune of being able to make the majority of the work I produce in the world on my own with no one bothering me. It really comes entirely out of me.

I don't care about anybody's opinion - I care that my movies move you in a way to think about things and consider your own life.

In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are safest.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.

I cannot stand beer. But I love wine.

I'm treating every day as a special one and trying to live in the moment.

Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.

The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.

Alexander smoked and watched her from his tree stump bench. What are you doing? she would ask him. Nothing, he would reply. Nothing but growing my pain into madness.

I'm real comfortable around people, and it took a long time for me to evolve to that point.

I am blessed or cursed, depending on how you look at it, with an incurably restless spirit and the ability to work hard.

Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.