I wasn't concerned, but I was thinking that the fastest way to get your mind off him and on me would be to tell you something truly appalling about him.

I was going to have to face the man who'd destroyed my kingdom, and the boy who was the reason.

Authenticity was the key to any deception. Sometimes authenticity was disgusting.

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

I-uh-have the utmost respect for Yamamoto-san. If it had not been for him, there would be no naval aviation. However-the most brilliant man can occasionally make a mistake.

I have finally become my own genre, and now that's what publishers want. I have a wonderful publisher now, Mulholland, very innovated, very fine people working there.

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

No one likes to be pitied for his faults.

It's pretty rare that I watch a movie now without seeing the script in a way that I hate, where I can see the stage directions and the choices that the actors are making.

Without a past you can't have a future.

We all know the power of film; we all know there's almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and talk like you, like we do.

I can't say that I have ever been fanatical about a show. To be honest, I'm not a big TV watcher.

Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy. [Fr., Oh c'etait le bon temps, j'etais bien malheureuse.]