Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.

I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.

I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism.

When in doubt, make a western.

Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?

Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.

Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.

When you close your eyes and you feel the color, that is when you know that love has entered your heart.

We don't experience our professional and personal lives as separate worlds

Nearly everything I do is part of a master plan to make me the most important entertainer in the world.

Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.

If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

Hope encourages men to endure and attempt everything; in depriving them of it, or in making it too distant, you deprive them of their very soul.

I always find film-making a pleasurable experience.

People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.