"The actors have confidence in me to let me lead them to unexpected things."

“Stop counting crayons, just draw pictures.”

“The only good Indians I ever saw were dead.”

Source : PBS "The New Perspectives on THE WEST", www.pbs.org.

“Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.”

“When no one is looking, I swallow deserts and clouds and chew on mountains knowing they are sweet bones! When no one is looking and I want to kiss God, I just lift my own hand to my mouth.”

“As always the thought of his own death calmed him as much as that of others disturbed him: was it perhaps because, when all was said and done, his own death would in the first place mean that of the whole world?”

Source : Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1960). “The Leopard”, Pantheon Books

“There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty.”

Source : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1855). “Beaumont and Fletcher: or, The finest scenes, lyrics, and other beauties of those two poets, now first selected from the whole of their works, to the exclusion of whatever is morally objectionable: with opinions of distinguished critics, notes explanatory and otherwise, and a general introductory preface”, p.207

“I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.”

“Whatever happened to me just now has gotten to me, broken past the fragile shell I've built. More than my memory is gone. My soul has wings that beat to a heart I don't understand and I see things, feel things that I know aren't from here, but that are so real.”