“The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.”

“I'm not a hopeless romantic. I'm quite the reverse. I'm a nasty piece of work, an ego maniac.”

“My mother was a teacher.”

“I don't hate L.A., but I'm nervous about becoming one of those people who has a ferocious interest in how films did at the box office that weekend and, you know, would want to meet for egg-white om...”

“Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.”

“For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget: your thing granaries ("museums"), and not yourselves, are full.”

“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”

“The living sinners on deadly ground.”

“O God give us our daily bread.”

“My mother is my friendWho shares with me her breadAll my hopelessness cured!Her company makes me secured!”

“Don't eat the bread unless you want to leave bread crumbs.”