If someone asks you to make a cup of coffee, make the best cup of coffee they’ve ever had, because why would they trust you with anything else if you can’t do that? No task is too small.

Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

The man who never tells an unpalatable truth 'at the wrong time' (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.

I don't look at my pension. It's not as big as yours so it doesn't take as long.

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

For states that support terror, it is not enough that the consequences be costly-they must be devastating

I found school pretty tough. I got the mickey taken out of me at school.

And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine

When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.

We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.