"Nature is so exact, it hurts exactly as much as it is worth, so in a way one relishes the pain, I think. If it didn't matter, it wouldn't matter."

“I don't believe in competition for artistic things. I just like the atmosphere of the Cannes festival. I don't want to win anything or lose anything.”

“Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.”

Source : Neil Postman (2009). “Teaching As a Subversive Activity: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World”, p.38, Delta

“What feeds me destroys me.”

“That which you manifest is before you.”

“I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.”

Source : "A life in the arts: Simon Callow" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. December 24, 2011.

“Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.”

“There is an automatic assumption that negative is realistic and positive is unrealistic.”

“I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.”