Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.

Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

Today the family is being attacked and defended with equal vehemence.

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

Happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won-some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it-but something to carry doggedly through everything.

Be master of your destiny.

Emotional blackmails and psychological threats are the feces of a rotten soul.

I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people's doors and running away. God that was a good game.

The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.

There is more danger of numerical sequences continued indefinitely than of trees growing up to heaven. Each will some time reach its greatest height.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.

Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spiritually

It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.