For a period of 17 years - from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old - my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.
I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.
My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that.
In 2000, I realized I had reached that certain age when the parts get scarcer. So I decided to try my hand at directing.
The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.
I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.
The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.
'Avatar' was incredible and totally groundbreaking, but it wasn't about utter realism. It had a great mythic fantasy to it, but the characters don't seem totally photo-real, as amazing as they are.
I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.
It's wonderful to see art in a museum, but it is institutionalised. I don't like the idea of the artwork as something that requires special conditions. I would like it to be universal.
In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.
You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and have for all of history.
I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and energetic, not the sort of rarified intellectual activity it's painted as.
My life has always somehow been played out in a minor key, unresolved. Art somehow resolves things for me.
Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
