If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.
I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.
What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control
The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all new again.
I try to encourage actors to work harder off screen because that's where you find things.
A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don't like it. One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.
Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.
Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work.
Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.
I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.