[That night] I was sitting by Jack Nicholson with my long list of thanks, and I said, `I'm so nervous. I don't know what to say if I go up there.' He said, `Don't get emotional, drop the names, and dedicate it to your mother.'

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.

You shall love. Whether you like it or not.

This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it cant be.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time.

Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.