It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being

American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.

Down the steps, ...over the corpses, ...careers the pram with the child.

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.

I feel free when I see no one and nobody knows my name

Franny understood then that grace was not like a present. It could not be given, and it could not be taken away.

I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language.

My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.

If I'm androgynous, I'd say I lean toward macho-androgynous.

And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners.

In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.

I've always been given respect because I'm kind of mannish, and I'm not a great beauty. I've never played the coquette card because I'm no good at it.

On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one.

Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet.