Well, I know about loneliness. I won't talk about it, but I was very lonely after the war. I know what it feels like to spend a whole weekend all by yourself and no one wants you at all.

I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of reading, rather than leading you to it. I don't understand that. Gosh.

I used to have more tolerance for these views, but I am losing patience with what I see. The test of anything is the fruit it bears. I see no good fruit being born.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

Closing the door to toxicity is the most effective way to make space for new opportunity.

I remember being young in the 1960s. We had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

We need practice solving problems.

I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.

Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed.

Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.

I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.

Never discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her crimes, known and unknown.

There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.