Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.

Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.

All films are born free and equal.

[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

Islaam is the Name of the Universe. Christ is the Soul, and Abraham, the Foundation — The Rainbow At Midnight

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Silent people are those who have too much to say

It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain.It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear, "On the other hand..."

I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.

People are disappointed if you're not entertaining and to be entertaining often means to be drunk.

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

The reality is that these cases are happening all the time. It's when they get out of control that you have a problem.

The definition of success is getting many of the things money can buy and all the things money can't buy.