The Oscar prestige was fine, but I worked more before I was nominated.

How do you tell a child that she was born to be hurt?

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill them up with holy service.

When you have grown accustomed to sitting and meditating, try to stop your thoughts. That's the bottom line in meditative practice.

I have learned that I am also a person who has to be able to go fishing whenever I can and for as long as I want to go. It is a silly thing, but there it is.

Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.

An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy

A lot of these gadgets and pieces of technology we use become almost like friends to us, and we expect our friends to have voices.

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.

Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.