When you are working hard, you don't have time for anything other than what you are doing in the scene and what the director wants.

Time goes on. So whatever you're going to do, do it. Do it now. Don't wait.

You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.

Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime.

When you love someone you gotta trust them, there's no other way. You gotta give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point?

I never walk into a place I don't know how to walk out of.

If you don't go, you'll never know.

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.

You don't need words to express feelings.

Passion should always trump common sense.

I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'

Any noble cause will encounter its share of setbacks. The strength of that cause is measured in how the men who fight for it respond. We refuse to give up, which is why we will prevail eventually.

Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life.

And don't kid yourself; when you don't decide, that's a decision.

Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than painting a portrait of it. That's a big shift.

Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.

There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man.

Atheists are not Americans.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

If a piece of worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not increased, nor that of the gold diminished.

When I was eleven, I got cast in the last directorial project of Christopher Reeve.