The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.

It’s my opinion that only in times of utter depression or lofty peace is it appropriate to be creative.

Love? Love is for children and poor people...

Rather a drink be my master than a man.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

A system needs to be alive and workable even when other people than the first enthusiasts start using it. Reinvention and revolution are enthusiast stuff. Invention and evolution are engineering.

The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.

There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship

The British public sees with blinding clarity.

Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.

I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary.