Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter.

Compassion is not pity ... compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion, one might say, works from a strength born of awareness of shared weakness, and not from someone else's weakness. And from the awareness of the mutuality of us all. Thus to put down another as in pity is to put down oneself.

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.

Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.

I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.