The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set

Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.

A different language is a different vision of life.

Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.

The visionary is the only realist.

No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.

Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.

Nothing is more honest than a dream.

Never trust a woman who doesn’t like to eat. She is probably lousy in bed.

Your worst enemy can be your best teacher!

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.

And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky.

A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish she [Cameron Diaz] would have done more with.

Our days, our deeds, all we achieve or are, Lay folded in our infancy; the things Of good or ill we choose while yet unborn.

I don't really think about retiring. I will retire just before people start saying, 'I knew Leonard Slatkin when he conducted well.

We're going out to play all the places where people might want to see us, because next time we might not just think about hitting every market or how we can make the most money.

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