It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special thing about yourself. It takes working hard, getting the technique, and learning to sing and all that stuff, but the master class is about bringing yourself to the role.

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.

I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.

It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?

It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives.

It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.

Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.

When I'm off the golf course, and my wife and I have free time, which is not very often, we really enjoy movies. I'm a movie nut; she might even be more so. Holiday in our house is the Oscars.

Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that's all I can do. It's the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field.

I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.

I ended up losing weight and going through a lot of stuff, but yeah, that is so much of my life and my past. I'm glad that I went through that because I don't think I would be where I am now if I hadn't gone through it. It spills over in most of my love for movies and being alone.

It's the story that counts.

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.

And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.

I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

It's fun and super exciting to see how other people work, how other people write music, and how other people put things together. To me, it's an endless learning process, and I love doing it because everybody works so completely differently.

I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.

Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.

Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a mule: sign all of us up for some shrinks so we can get ourselves right by reflecting and truly learning ourselves.

You only stop learning when you quit.

I think everything you do in life is a learning experience.

The whole experience co-curating the Biennial was a learning experience. The Suburban and The Poor Farm are not institutions. They are not by design, organized around power structures. Because I am someone who thrives on delineating context, seeing up close the inner workings of the museum was not wasted on me.

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

I secretly enjoy being alone - hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to movies alone. Do not get me wrong, I like sharing my life with other people, but sometimes I really enjoy being as alone as possible.

I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone.

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland.

In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.