Dialogue should show the relationships among people.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

There will be days you wish you’d never done it. And thosewill be the good times, when it’s only days of regret and notmonths.

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

Jay-Z ain't a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this, he been through the game for a long time so he knows tactics in taking artists in certain directions we need to go in.

In the midst of our daily lives, we must find the juice to nourish our creative souls.

This is The Tonight Show. I can't tell you too much about it, other than the fact that this program is going to go on forever.

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.