If you're always ready, you don't have to get ready.

One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations.

Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard

I think that when I make a film, I'm terrified that people will come to work and work on something that they're not proud of.

Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocracy

There is no pain worse than not achieving a dream when it is your fault. If God did not want you to have it, that is one thing. But if you do not get what you desire because you are lazy, there is no pain worse than that.

Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.