"Perhaps teachers must be good actors where lessons are concerned, but in life outside the class, we mustn't hide from our pupils our individual spirits."

“Fantasy isn't just a jolly escape: It's an escape, but into something far more extreme than reality, or normality. It's where things are more beautiful and more wondrous and more terrifying. You move into a world of conflicting extremes.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 05, 2003.

“For me, the audience is the most important thing in the whole chain, so finding out how they respond to things is a learning curve at all times.”

“Switch on and keep on in yourself the cheerful buttons... Those marked Joy, Laughter, Happiness, Love, Passion for life, Gratitude for life.”

“As but a swift glance is enough to catch the glory of a great landscape, or only a little lingering is necessary to observe many peculiar beauties in it, so but a brief turn of the mind to sublime thoughts will give us their light and power.”

“I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.”

“In the (film) industry, body size doesn't matter. What matters is how much an actor contributes through his performance and not his body size. It is important that every person should wear clothes that go with their body - the cut, the fabric make a lot of difference.”

“The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.”

“Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box”