Art is not a mirror but a hammer.

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.

I look on cinema as a pulpit, and use it as a propagandist.

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.

It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.

We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form

When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.

I slept badly that night, my vivid dreams populated by ghosts. As much as it revived ailing spirits in day light, the fizzy energy of NY seemed to feed on human frailty at night.

♫ Climbed that roost, alighted right there. Made mush of his head for the onlooker bears.A two-pronger her prize, a meat most rare. Do-gooders will pay. Do-gooders will fear. ♫

I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father.

I don't want to die!" "Then you should never been born.

Love more deeply and without the sense of what you love being your personal possession.

In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.

If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besides that Twilight thing?'

The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too good for the pavement.