Long patience and application saturated with your heart's blood-you will either write or you will not-and the only way to find out whether you will or not is to try.

Our world was brutal, immoral, smug and conventional. We had unbounded contempt for all those who did not sin as we sinned.

I’ll be like Esther. Your daughter.”“You ain’t that strong.

In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.

Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

Set goals not for the outcome itself, but for who you get to become in the process.

In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

Every young person needs some adult who's just wild and crazy about them!

And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.