[Bertholt] Brecht looked very thin, like a herring with very sensitive hands.

Training is useful but there is no substitute for experience.

If you cannot lie, tell a different truth.

You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that's what the past is for. It's to learn from. It's not to limit you, you shouldn't be limited by it.

I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.

He’s harmless, poor thing. That’s what everyone said. It was true, but who cares? Lots of people are harmless, but that doesn’t mean I have to like them.

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze.

Michael Powell always used to say 'I'm a typical Englishman'. He was and he wasn't. He was very cosmopolitan and spent a lot of time in Europe.

Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance.

Here we have 40 million Russian citizens involved in the sphere of agriculture one way or another. This is very important.