We are the sum and synergy of all our experiences.

With our ignorance, they win, we lose.

It might seem a contradiction but... the ability to improvise requires lots of practice. Ask any jazz musician.

We are changing all the time and this never changes.It is not whether we change, it is how much and in what direction we change. These choices are ours can only be made by us

The best thing in life is change. Without change there is no life.

Conscious practice becomes unconscious practice.

Practice is the process of moving conscious action into subconscious and unconscious action.

Nobody can learn for another. Only we can teach ourselves.

It is absolutely possible that the impossible is possible.

The "question" is the inoculation against and the antidote for ignorance.

As a camera is an instrument that teaches us how to see when we don't have a camera, writing is a process that teaches how to think when we are not writing.

One kind deed is more beautiful than a thousand good intentions.

We were the ones on scene when everything went down. We weren't better. We weren't worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast radius.

When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.

One becomes a gardener by becoming a gardener.

So I went to George and told him I had the opportunity to become the figurehead of a government safety campaign, and he agreed to give me the week off and reschedule shooting!

Buy whatever kids are selling on card tables in their front yard.

The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.

Directing is much more psychological-it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between two and 500 people asking you a billion questions.

The rose is born evil ... but it is pink.

People have got to let their bodies breathe a little bit more. That's the great thing about being a pompous, jumped-up rock god. There's plenty of air around you.