Things own you. That's the trouble with capitalism. Things own you. With communism and fascism - ideas own you. One idea and you can't have any other.

There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.

No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to hundreds of millions of people for two hours in the dark.

There are no rules in filmmaking

My films must let every man, woman, and child know that God loves them, that I love them, and that peace and salvation will become a reality only when they all learn to love each other.

Friend, you are a divine mingle-mangle of guts and stardust. So hang in there! If doors opened for me, they can open for anyone.

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

I always felt the world cannot fall apart as long as free men see the rainbow, feel the rain and hear the laugh of a child.

Most ideologies of the world are not for the individual. They're against the individual. Communism, fascism. Any kind of an ism - almost - they're against the individual.

My Advice to Young Filmmakers is This: Don't Follow Trends. Start Them!

The job of every belief is to validate itself by giving you an EXPERIENCE!!

Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency.

You cannot run away from the truth because truth will find you.

Always think about the needs of others because being a part of a group isan essential characteristic of human nature.

I joke that I reached the bimbo trifecta when I came to Fox News! In being a former Miss America, being blonde and then Fox.

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

It's hard to keep your backbone straight in America. It's easy to turn into that which you hate, and to get smashed.

The ridiculousness and idiocy of life is embraced and examined. It nurtures the childhood perspective in everyone.

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.

I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.