Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences.

it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.

If a person is found dead here, a postmorten will always reveal whether he has spent less than three weeks in the city. That is the length of time it takes this pollution to invade the body, after which it is there forever.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

I believe we come to earth with sealed orders. I believe that only those who lack passion look down on purpose.

What I have always loved most in men is imperfection.

Yeah, unfortunately [ films like Miss Julie are a dying breed]. And that is sad, because we need these. Like we need books, we need classical music, we need ballet, we need opera, to remind us really of who we are and why we are, and we need in movie houses - even to be in a movie - where you sit and see not only excitement and man-hero, woman-hero, you need quietly, just like that Hawking movie we talked about, to know how people overcome.