Quotes
"You can go anywhere with someone who admits what they don't know, but if they don't have that basic courage to say, "Well, I don’t know, I’m not sure, what do
you think?" it doesn’t mean you can’t get it done, it doesn’t mean you cry and go "boo hoo" and sit in a puddle on the ground. You still have to solve the problem and do the best you can. You got a time limit, you got a money limit. You don't have a love limit."
“What frustrates me is that people so... so many of us have such a low opinion of ourselves. I think low... a misunderstanding of our potential... My experience is that I rarely have seen... I've never seen a human face that didn't have genius in it”
"Don't condescend. Because condescension is such a terrible insult. And... for me, for instance, if I hear a director or somebody say to me "Well how did you make the audience feel this?" I don't make anyone feel anything. I don't want anybody telling me what to think or feel and I don't want to tell anyone else what to think or feel. To me there's a lot more joy and depth in this little existence than that. And me manipulating someone else.. I don't like being manipulated and I don't like manipulating. So what I do is to try and use my form to observe things and explore things. For as much as possible for its own sake. And I think we are all using that form for that. I think you are. I mean I don't.. .you know my ticket into that quest is no more influential than yours. Our ticket is our curiosity. That's what gets you in the door, and that's the way it ought to be, and that's the way it should stay.'"
"Sometimes we have to use one of our own weaknesses has a shield against other people's weaknesses and then hope we can transcend our own weakness when it is no longer necessary to use it for our defense."
"But you show me anything, any truth that is the shortest distance between two points in a straight line? Bull----. You've to to go around the neighbourhood to find the truth."