Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.
I am not one of these people who spend a ton of time in front on my computer; I see it as very utilitarian.
One thing I've really never had a problem with was memorizing lines. Most of the time I don't memorize the lines until we're on the set shooting the scene.
The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time.
I loved 'Middlemarch,' I think that's one of my favourite books of all time, actually.
One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.
There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space.
As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allotted for vacation.
For everyone I know who is a writer, there was some awkward time in their lives when they had to learn to call themselves one.
Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.
I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.
On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects.
In all the years that I've been doing this, I've never launched a tour and launched an album at basically the same time. Doing one of those things is enough!
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.
You're an animal, you live, maybe this one time is your lifetime - go there. Who cares what somebody else thinks?
You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.
One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.
I guess that's one of the reasons that you do it - work all the time - because it's sort of a high to find something that really works.
