For the first time in my life, I believe that maybe I can be more than what I am, that I can be more than I ever dreamed of. Because of him.

Smartass Disciple: Master, please show me the way to the enlightenment.Master of Stupidity: Walk with me! [but I won't let you try to surpass me].

It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

All I've ever needed is myself.

Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.

Was it the same light that enchanted the first photographers? It is the same, and it is still brand new - it is something that never wears out.

Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.