In every shoot, between the actor and the director there is manipulation. I'm not saying that negatively. It's healthy.

I just tried to remember how far you can love and how many states you can experience when you're in love, especially the first love when you think you're going to die.

It's hard to be natural in a scene when you pick up the phone and no one is there.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.

History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.

You are your own refuge There is no other You cannot save another You can only save yourself.

My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.

I love to engage with people who come to see us.

I'm absolutely not looking for someone who agrees with me about everything or someone who wants to please me by believing what I believe.

If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.

Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.

Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.