All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do.

Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works - winning best actor is arbitrary.

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.

I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - the oldest Hindu philosophy - and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that's true, there's no such thing as a past or a future - it's all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.

'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.