Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.

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.

Faith is the blind heart that sees better than an opened eye

I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is mankind's sole purpose on this planet.

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

The problem [of climat changing] is only getting worse - that to me underscores that we need a transformative solution.

Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.

Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.

When we had to survive on our wits, gather and kill our food from scratch and be more at the mercy of our environment than we are today, we probably had enough challenge to keep our brains healthy.

At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.

There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.

Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.