People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the people they ignore at home

Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

One's destination is never a place, but always a new way of seeing things.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled.

The journey not the arrival matters.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.

I can't be as flip as I once was.

She said, and I'm not kidding, 'Is this a speaking role?' I wasn't quite sure how to answer that one.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Hits and flops will come and go. But what stays with you is the experience you had while shooting a film. I am happy learning something new each time.

Germany's strength lies largely in the fact that the Federal Republic is a center of industry and that it's an export nation.

It's not that there aren't people who care creatively in the world of television, but there's always a bit more time in making a movie. I always feel films are more of a creative journey.

I think all the stuff that happens before the pictures are taken is much more exciting.

I never had any awkward situations with Shah Rukh.

Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.

Like pollen on a honeybee flattery clings to the things you tell yourself.

One nice thing that I have discovered about Los Angeles is the enthusiasm with which people dress.

I don't know what better teenage life you could get than going around the world doing what you love to do.

Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.

So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.

If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.

If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.

Keep calm and believe in yourself “only”.

Why should the court impose a judgment in a case in which the SEC alleges a serious securities fraud, but the defendant neither admits nor denies wrongdoing?

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million.

The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.