I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world.

I think if you have a passion for what you do then there are no limitations on how long or how much you can accomplish.

I have an awful lot to learn. My dream is to get better and better as I get older.

I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.

If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.

Someday, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way you look tonight.

To work is to feel alive.

"Benedetto" means the "blessed one" and I feel that I have truly been blessed.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do

I can't ask for more out of life, and the more I learn, the less I know.

There is nothing like fear to complicate one's consciousness, inducing previously unknown levels of reflection

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines on you..

People would have to learn to deal with old monsters again. Stay in their houses. Shutter their windows.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

Cultivate those who can teach you.

In episodic TV you have to keep things secret to keep the viewer in suspense.

This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's most intimate thoughts and feelings, that it throw open the window of the soul.

I'm reluctant to draw many conclusions from private correspondence leaked without permission.

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

No sound is dissonant which tells of life.