"The Western is our genre in the United States of America. The English have Shakespeare, the French have Molière, the …"

"Sometimes what comes around the corner is better for you than what you're planning to do anyway."

"I don’t try to be a hard guy to work with … but I decide what I’m going to do with a character. I will take direction…"

"It was as if somehow Al Capone had become head of the United States."

"To the world, he was an Academy Award-winning actor, a director, a storyteller. To me, he was simply everything. His …"

"The whole film, my character has been covering up her emotions with a hardness, not letting anybody see her crack, so…"

"I grew up in Los Angeles, but Hollywood always felt so far away from me. So to be here standing in this room today is…"

"Any uncomfortability or pain or difficulty I felt is temporary because that’s just how it is. I welcome those feeling…"

"Dance is poetry because its ultimate goal is to express feelings, even if through a rigid technique. Our task is to c…"

"There was once a word that I am proud of and that is part of my childhood: proletariat. Unfortunately, no one uses it…"