Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.

Truth has many dimensions, and the way you arrive at truth in complex situations is through many perspectives.

Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing.

The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions.

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

I don't think biology is replacing the feeling experienced through art. Biology is capable of giving additional insights. It's a parallel, not a substitutive process.

Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.

I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged.

It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.

You should have died when I killed you.

A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.

Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves.

God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.

The thing I hate about the film business, is having to pitch your idea.

We all have scars [...] Better by far for them to be worn on the outside.

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.

Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren.

Bless us, divine number, who generated gods and men. Number contains the root and source of eternally flowing creation.