“A man is only as strong as the woman who holds him.”

Don’t let anyone tell you your dreams don’t have value. They do.

To aspiring writers, I say : Don’t give up. Storytelling has been an integral part of the human condition since the beginning of time.

Because we can’t tell others about our accomplishments if we don’t know them ourselves.

Every day is a gift — start unwrapping them.

One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: “This too shall pass.

I’ve never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

Love yourself loudly, dangerously, everywhere people have been afraid to love you, afraid to ask the way to cherish you, afraid to hold you. Love yourself most in these places, because who can be a better teacher to others in how to love you than yourself.

Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.

Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.

Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.