From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it can be to be in possession of a unique voice.
Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.
If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.
Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.
Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.
America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.
Anybody can write a film script ’cuz it has been reduced to a formula.
Life without kids is like a camera without film.
It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.
I’m the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.
The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.
LIFE: My favorite occupation.
It takes great technique, tremendous discipline and energy and practice, and damn few are capable. Art is confidence. Technique makes it possible to achieve artistic greatness, but doesn’t guarantee it. The great piano artists are not the ones who are best playing Clementi exercises.
You can’t leave civilization behind entirely.
Men hand out cigars. Women ‘hand out’ babies. And thus the world, for thousands of years, has gone round.
I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic vista. Did this late in the evenings many times.
I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child’s life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.
I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.
We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that’s been hanging around and killed our dog, we don’t have a care in the world.
I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.
Movies are movies, television is television.