My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.Don't put limitations on yourself.Others will do that for you.

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.

There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is... James Cameron.

There seems to be a lot of excitement around something that, to me, is a yawn, frankly.

Your imagination can create a reality

There is a vast frontier that's going to take us a while to understand... it was very lunar, a very desolate place, isolated.

We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us.

Sometimes all we need to soothe our soul and ease our burdens is the loving hand of a friend gently touching our heart and lifting us towards love

I don't think anyone would argue with the notion that there have been serious abuses on Wall Street.

Crimes against humanity in Gaza: is it really a 'buffer zone' - or a bigger plan? -- It's time to step back and ask if we want to support Israel if it wants to eject all Palestinians from their land.

Anyone that's trying to do something to improve sound... that's all good.

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

I never go overbudget on my movies.

And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life.