I was pretty much a minimalist. I liked a lot of black at the time, which is very different from my wardrobe now, because I live in color.
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the mind goes astray in a restless fickleness.
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
The color of truth is gray.
In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
I didn't worry about what DeNiro thought. . . I went in, looked him in the eye, and got the part. I was confident, even though I'd never done anything like it before. Now I realise it was ignorant confidence-I had no idea.
It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again. " Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.
STOP AT NOTHING TO GET THE BEST WORK THAT YOU CAN GET. BETRAY, VIOLATE, CAUSE ENORMOUS HARM.
The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.