1. “I believe that when things happen, they happen with a purpose.”
2. “Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.”
3. “You need to be silly to be funny.”
4. “When I’m interviewing somebody I don’t work from prepared questions.”
5. “You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.”
6. “Youth is the ultimate limited resource.”
7. “If saving money is wrong, I don’t want to be right!”
8. “The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.”
9. “I have been accused of never saying no.”
10. “We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.”
11. “Never buy anything that eats while you sleep.”
12. “I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.”
13. “Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.”
14. “Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.”
15. “There was nothing lonelier than a man with a million friends.”
16. “The truth can’t be hidden for long.”
17. “Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment.”
18. “I love to evoke the bone and meat and thought of characters.”
19. “Fate gives you the finger an you accept.”
20. “A pretty girl is certainly comparable to a good horse.”
21. “Divorce is probably as painful as death.”
22. “The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.”
23. “I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.”
24. “The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.”
25. “The more powerful the villain is the more powerful the hero.”
26. “A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.”
27. “You can’t do anything about the past. And you don’t know what the future is.”
28. “I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.”
29. “I don’t think of myself as being tied.”
30. “Conquest is easy. Control is not.”
