The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

It's been a long time since I've been me.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

Our levels of consciousness and awareness define our wants and needs. When we achieve higher levels of consciousness, our wants cease to exist.

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

Become better at firing than hiring - it's crucial for building a business.

A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.

If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you're probably watching the wrong channel.

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.

I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.