What is the most important lesson life has taught you?

So achievement, to me, is something that just comes with this attitude of doing your work the best you can in a passionate way. It’s not something that you have to expect. It’s something that’s a consequence of what you do, but it’s certainly important.

I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. ... It's one of those phobias that didn't pay off. ... How much you're supposed to enjoy every sandwich.

Don't let MGM distribute a film you care about.

I believe in this country. I believe in the American people. I believe that people are more good than bad. I believe tragic things happen, I think there's evil in the world, but I think that at the end of the day, if we work hard, and if we're true to those things in us that feel true and feel right, that the world gets a little better each time.

That there is no ideal life. Disappointments sit around every corner, so enjoy the here and now.

That materialistic things will not make you happy.

That your life is only in this very second.

Live in the moment. Enjoy life because time cruelly speeds up as you get older and becomes scarily finite.

To follow your path and not worry about what to do too much; one thing leads to the next, and you wind up where you’re meant to be.

To keep going and never give up, and to enjoy it to the absolute full because, at any moment, the curtain can fall.

Trust my instincts.

Life is not worth living if there is no one you would die for.

To know thyself, as Shakespeare said.

To believe my eyes and not my ears.

Healthy body and a healthy mind – very simple.

Do not take life too seriously, this is all a sham.

To tell the truth.

We are not here for long – try not to take everything too seriously.

To have the courage to fail.

Discipline. Also to have a goal, however small and whatever it may be.