Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

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.

Being in the present moment, one can step outside the mechanical train of life, and this is where the inner revolution begins.

Memory is dramatic present tense. You create it as you remember it.

There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.

A great country ought not to make little wars.

Torture is illegal. Torture is banned by various provisions of the law. I support that.

That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.

History at its best is a gritty, dirty business.

What happened to goodbye?

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.