People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

Once you learn how to diw, you learn how to live

A diamond doesn't start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I'm that diamond.

People expect that they should be understood by you but seldom put in an effort to understand you.

A person is an entity of a sort to which the only proper and adequate way to relate is love.

There's nothing like being on a massive-budget film where you don't know anything, and there's a million people, and no one's communicating.

As long as he was breathing, God's greatest task for him was not yet finished. His highest purpose in life was still unfulfilled. ... God still had plans for him.

I knew that I was going to do Westerns. I like 'em.

The only reason I work out is so I can eat more cheese.

I never felt like I was forced to do anything.