Artists are here to disturb the peace.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

Opportunities to share love and compassion are all around us. Its going to take an army of compassionate people to heal our world. How will you show yours?

If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even.

All human movement is expressive.

Better is the enemy of the good.

The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.

We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas.

Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

Rapid-collage prevents any elevating movement toward a fixed goal. To 'be nowhere' is to let oneself be.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will.

I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.