Ah, gratitude, that's a terrible thing, a dangerous thing.

Children do not see themselves as shocking or surprising and do not want other people to do so.

Facts, I feel, should be ready to yield to manipulation. But unfortunately they're a stubborn lot.

We never wholly shed anything that we have ever been.

Most of us think we've had more trouble than we deserve.

Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.

Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.

Most of the time, the creative part is like playing in a sandbox. I can sit here and work for 12 hours and not get tired of it.

I'll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!

One, two, three four five, All is well I am alive, Six,seven,eight nine ten, All is well, no whining then!

The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.

This is the spirit of prayer--sincere, humble, believing, submissive. Other prayer than this the Bible does not require--God will not accept.

People think innovation is just having a good idea but a lot of it is just moving quickly and trying a lot of things.

First the stalk - then the roots. First the need - then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus -then the elements needed for its growth.

What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.