It's not a pretty world, Papa.''I've noticed, ' my father said softly.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.

Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.

Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way.

It was no joy waking up after a dream about that man. He left a taste of thunder in my mouth.

An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity.

An artist is a person first.

> Why does everything that lives have to die?< So life would be precious, Asher. Something that is yours forever, is never precious.

Disappointments are often my greatest motivation.

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.

You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.

That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.

Despotism can only exist in darkness.

When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.

It's amazing what can happen if you just put your arm around somebody.

Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is.

Never take more out of life, than you intend to give back.