I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

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.

How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

A poet is someone whose words can grasp & pull the thread of a person's soul & make them unravel with delight.

In the land of light there is only one currency. The currency of love.

This woman is so didactic I think I may scream. If it's bleeding, bandage it. If it's crying, hug it. If it's hopeless, pray for it. If it's dead, resurrect it.

It feels good read but greater to write.

Mistakes have been always the path of learning, but to close something because of mistakes and to start it again maybe it's good idea, maybe not!

I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.

If you keep running from me, you're never going to figure out what's really going on.

Technology is spurring innovation, and the so-called "demographic dividend" has brought change.

Worship is the grand theme of the Bible.