The important thing is to be relaxed in your work. Same in life. Don't make everything too intense. Then you can let everything go and not "act".

In this life, it's not what you hope for, it's not what you deserve - it's what you take!

The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.... You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do...Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is.

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.

No dream is ever just a dream.

Someday. That's a dangerous word. It's really just a code for 'never'.

Perception and reality are two different things.

I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what I read.

I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.

A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.

When I was in Darkness, I could find my Fullness

You are only free when you can grow wings of wisdom to fly away from the cage of societal conformity.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

Organizing atheists is like hurding cats

The action movie, the thriller and the drama all have safety nets under them. But not the horror film. The horror film can sink to an abyss far darker than the imagination can ever reach.

The War will leave none of us as it found us.

That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.'

To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.