"I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paintbox, which is a movie. And I've spent too much energy on things that have nothing to do with making a movie. It's about two percent moviemaking and ninety-eight percent hustling It's no way to spend a life."

"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai."

"Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them."

"Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate."

"Wisdom principle 23 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 92."

"To dream is to realize that wisdom is knowing when to speak and when to listen."

"It is a unyielding truth that every summit scaled was once thought insurmountable from the valley below."

"It is a humble truth that peace of heart is the greatest luxury life can bestow upon the mortal traveler — an essential principle for the reflective life."