And Quotes

Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.

His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.

A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.

I don't see much point in doing things for a pure joke. Every now and then you need a joke, but not so much as the people who spend all their lives constructing joke palaces think you do.

Just fear me and love me...and do as I say...and I will be your slave.

I place us where we are a happy couple who are madly in love, and we are kissing the way people kiss on their wedding day. With joy and relief and love. Without guilt. Without Shame.

I want to surround myself with the people I care about and that has a lot to do with what love is. It's surrounding yourself with the people you do love and trust, and that kind of thing.

I know a lot of friends and family who were Joe Montana fans, where it didn't matter how well Steve Young did. They weren't going to cheer for him because he wasn't Joe Montana.

I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.

Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.

This [the earthquake] was a very big influence on me, and the issue of life and death from then on does recur in my films.

There's a thin line baby. A thing line between love and hate." -Cage York

I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.

The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.

There is no contradiction between true religion and science

My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.

The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.

The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client.

The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.

I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.

I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.

Now and then I find a kitschy series I love.

I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I've lived here for sixteen years.

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

SNL is a home. You've got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it's a great time.

God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.

Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.

That's why I've gotten so much experience at my age. You have three teachers next to you every game, and if I'm not playing, I'm watching baseball. You pick up little things here and there.

Somebody said that I'm a bit like a sponge, grabbing things here and there, soaking stuff up. [As a director] you have to be, really.

Love and heartbreak is something that's always been a part of me.

If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.

Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you. You have work anytime. But love? Not always.

Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.

I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.

Life would continue to exist and grow. Cause and effect still exist even where there is no time.

Separation can make us feel helpless and powerless, like we have no control. To withstand this negative force, we must return to our inner core, and that takes work. That takes time and patience.

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and culture.

Sometimes isn’t it better to have some time and space to ourselves? We will have new perception of things.

One thing I've learned, in the face of all kinds of indignities, domestic workers take so much pride in their work and love the children they care for.

I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.

Our gifts and talents should also be turned over to Him. They should be recognized for what they are, God's loan to us, and should never be considered in any sense our own

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal

There was never any doubt in our minds that men and women were equal, if not more so.

Every now and then we could steal somebody else's stuff.

The music has always been my bread and butter, and I've focused more of my attention on that.