All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism.

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

I live and die for the Buckeyes. I also love to play racquetball.

There are many great minds on earth and not all are human.

If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.

Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.

You can order yourself to treasure a moment, to cling tight to a feeling and never let it fade, but it's your brain, that three-pound lump of hamburger, that makes the final call.

I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure.

Dead bodies are such trouble,” Evie said with a little sigh, and Mabel had to turn her head away so as not to laugh.

It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me.