“When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.”

The things I can’t do are the things I have yet to learn.

Everyone who lives long enough to love deeply will experience great losses. Don’t let fear of loss, or the losses themselves, take away your ability to enjoy the wonderful life that is yours.

I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.

Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.

He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.

Love scenes are the hardest things in the world and if you enjoy them, that’s wonderful, because nobody making them sits there and goes, ‘Let’s do that again tomorrow.’

The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.

This is over 10 years in the making for me and just a dream come true. I’m the luckiest person in the world.

I’m going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point.

I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.