If your business plan depends on suddenly being "discovered" by some big shot, your plan will probably fail. Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Things are made slowly and in pain.

GOOD IDEAS ALTER THE BALANCE IN RELATIONSHIPS. THAT IS WHY GOOD IDEAS ARE ALWAYS INITIALLY RESISTED.

Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it.

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle—that is, being human.

They're only crayons. You didn't fear them in Kindergarten, why fear them now?

These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.

Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: "Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I."

We had been affected by the fact that the film world was a man's world in Europe as much as here, in America actually.

Do you remember when we were kids and played that game 'Telephone'? It was like that. The first time I heard about it, someone said he'd been shot 17 times.

This is now a covenant of pure grace; let no man attempt to mix works with it.

Do you remember when you found out there was no Santa Claus? I was so upset I didn't think I'd be able to do the show.

When you feel humiliated or things like that, you either use it as fuel to change or you get covered by it.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.

In an inconspicuous way, Gretchen Parlato knows how to play the same instrument that Frank Sinatra played. There's no one out there like Gretchen.