People hate it when you're better than them. They ain't hating, start worrying then.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

As a result, your subconscious mind will do its best to keep you from a successful marriage, because you have a disagreement between your consciousness and sub consciousness

The source of work? Man’s mind...man’s reasoning mind.

I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.

The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; and the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be'.

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

We won when we toppled Saddam. That was the only clear goal of this war, to topple the Iraqi government. It took about 10 minutes.

I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.

For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me

The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.