To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.

In a mad world only the mad are sane.

I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.

It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

The role of the artist is to not look away.

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.

If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.

Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.

Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.

Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased.

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

But for the silly chaps, we would still be living in the Stone Age.

The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

You would attain to the divine perfection.

Studios are run by those who are way too old or mostly young, who don't think creatively.

The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages.

If anybody would have told me I'd be making number seven Fast & Furious, I would have said, "You're crazy."

Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother's father dad.