If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

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.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

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.

Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares? He's a mile away and you've got his shoes!

A man needs to feel a little fear, Tolui, if only to have the pride of conquering it.

One of the greatest skills any leader can master is becoming comfortable with silence.

If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?

Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!

I miss smoking (two to four packs a day) but I don't miss the crackle in my lungs when I breathed.

My dream is to star in an animated movie and to have a toy made after me.

Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

To hope is to see with the eye of the heart.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.