It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

No authority is higher than reality.

The best mirror is an old friend.

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.

Action conquers fear.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

We will not know unless we begin.

Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.

All the glories of the sunset,In the sunrise one may see;That which others call the dawning is the night for you and me.

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.

Winners know they are not perpect. They respect their weaknesses while making the most of their strenghts.

If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

In times of crisis its wonderful what the imagination will do.

I'm a utopianist.

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

When people ask me exactly how much time I spend in each country, I always tell them I have no idea.

I'm very lucky because I love fruit and to this day, that has saved me because I'd much rather have fruit than cookies.

Steroids do not guarantee you're going to have success. I think a lot of people think that they will, but they don't.

When I go into rehearsal rooms and meet with bands, they're genuinely excited to be with me because of what I've done as an artist, not because of anything else. There's that whole celebrity rock star thing, and artists are into artists who have been able to achieve success their way.

You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.

National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius.

I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.

Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.

I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.

The others don't like my interviews. And frankly, I don't care much for theirs.

Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

I'm like a duck: calm above the water, and paddling like hell underneath.