The screen is a magic medium.

Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet.

It's not easy being a missionary, even with the key to the cosmos in your hand.

If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts but if he will content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

I'll never forget my first words in the theatre. "Peanuts. Popcorn."

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

In the only way that pain can be truly remembered, through a new pain.

The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.