In filmmaking, patience is not just a virtue, it is a necessity.

I don't think of myself as a celebrity. I think of myself as an actor who's had some success.

解释：顺应时代的潮流就会昌盛，背离时代的方向便会走向灭亡。

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

I was a truck driver in LA, going to City College, and I tried to sign up for a class in ceramics, but it was full. So I signed up for architecture. It was an accident.

"A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it."

学习的唯一途径就是行动。你需要知道的一切，都已经通过你的旅程学会了。

If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to make sacrifices.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

正直不会遭遇祸患，谦和不会损害道义。

"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money."