The number one book of the ages was written by a committee, and it was called The Bible.

Be smart, but never show it.

Well, do anything, if you do something right, we'll use it, and if you do something wrong, we'll fix it, but do something and do it now.

You know how I'm smart? I got people around me who know more than I do.

America must remain, at any cost, the custodian of freedom, human dignity and economic security. The United States must be strong, so that no nation may dare attack.

I will only make pictures that I won't be ashamed to have my children see.

Nothing matters. Nothing matters.

Leaves lift trees.

And in any case...there are no more supernatural noises nowadays...

A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.

Why is it that you don't love me?" "Sometimes I wish I knew..." "Don't anybody tell him!!

Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.

We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly.

You never lose until you actually give up.

And remember, the people that you've seen here tonight are professionals, so please don't try any of this at home, because you are ugly and hung like a hampster.

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.