When you're really young, you're young for life.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Alone in the dark, a great light illuminated my path.

the greatest cruelty of madness is the power it has to blot out a person.

As a teacher, his task was not to make policy but to follow the policy made by the Department.

They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of illicit kisses.

In moviemaking, you learn to pay attention to detail, because so much is in the detail. And when you're shooting, you try to be very alert to what's going on, even if you're tired.

They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

Nothing at times is more expressive than silence.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!

You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.