USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

There is no way to reach your fullest potential if you don't really find the love of yourself.

You need to earn the right to promote.

I can't wait to continue traveling and do as much as I can possibly do.

For me the question was, do I want my paycheck to be dependent on how other people think I look?

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

Anybody that's old and closed-minded does not like Rick James... They don't like the fact that I'm free and I'm wide open.

Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.