We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.

I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.

I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.

Given the world that he created, it would be an impiety against God to believe in him.

If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me?

I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people.

A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.