You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.

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.

Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds.

Staring into his eyes, she noticed a thin circle of gray around the green. A SILVER LINING, she thought.

Like everything else in life, these questions have no easy answers.

The American religion-so far as there is one anymore-seems to be doubt. Whoever believes the least wins, because he'll never be found wrong.

I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.

Everyone in rock 'n roll including myself was touched by Elvis's spirit, I was, and always will be a fan.

I'm not a Casanova in 'The Newsroom,' by the way - just another hard worker.

Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go? Soon will the high Midsummer pomps come on, Soon will the musk carnations break and swell.

No man is an island; but some are peninsulas.

Donald [Trump] has had a long career of using great wealth and power trying to bully others.