I think the American people lose a large part of the joy of life because they do not live for generations in the same place.

We Virginians do not go to the storied shrines of the past to do worship but rather to gain inspiration.

The man who wins is the man who hangs on just five minutes longer after everyone else has quit.

Time alone is irreplaceable. Waste it not.

Oh, goodie, " Puck said as I stepped forward. "I'm going to have a rash in the most uncomfortable places.

Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.

If those extra-social brains are so potent, why after all do they effect so little? A dull police-officer, with the machine behind him, can afford to laugh at most experiments in anarchy.

I never had that star aura.

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.

She smacked him so hard his momma felt it.

There is a work that my father had started, a dream he had dreamt. I come to you today saying...allow me to turn that dream into reality

Directing is like guitar playing. That's a unique mind-set and talent, unto itself. I like the idea of putting everything together to make a great movie.