Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
At one point, I actually, ironically, thought I might go into criminology and work with the FBI.
When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years.
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.
From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.
In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band.
Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.
I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Be yourself, fill your life with good people, and don't get a big head. It can all be gone tomorrow.
I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.
There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.