Whatever one intends, the work takes on a life of its own..

Being alone is and nothing is altogether not..

Anyone can be happy when times are good; the richer experience is to be happy when times are not.

Great influencers attract others..

There are as many sorts of women as there are women..

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid..

I'm an unpure purist, something like that..

You don't question where the music comes from, because it all comes from God..

I am often asked how I got into the business. I didn't. The business got into me..

Either is both, and Both is neither..

I'm always pleased with my work. Absolutely..

But you don't have your druthers in life, do you?.

m doing my best" "no,this isn't your best. We shall recognize your best when it appears.

We learn nothing by being right..

I never dreamed I would do Westerns..

Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again..

The only thing power respects, is power..

I pulled out of making movies in about '96 or '97..

I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!.

When we are wholly His we will be more ourselves than ever..

We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate..