Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.

Failure's a natural part of life.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

People who feel pain, that’s common. Someone who uses pain to create, this is an Artist.

A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.

The best way to describe your total creative capacity is to say that for all practical purposes it is infinite.

Invest in yourself. your career is the engine of your wealth.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.

Babies don't know who's rich and who's poor. You love 'em and they're happy.

We can have whatever it is we choose, I don't care how big it is. You become what you think about, but you also attract what you think about most.

It's not quite the same as other kinds of performing, but I love animation. It is just a different kind of experience. The difference is that making a live action movie you are using your whole body.