All of us are embarrassed by some of what we are.
The day nothing turns you on - you're dead. No matter how many more years you go on breathing.
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
We'd all like to be taken for what we'd like to be.
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.
There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.
Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.
I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'what's your advice?' first I say, 'be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable. '
Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone - those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river; the "what" is in constant flux, the "why" has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what's right here. The infinity of past and future gapes before us - a chasm whose depths we cannot see.