History is the nothing people write about a nothing.

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

Heaven lies around us in our infancy.

You don't even care enough about us to hate us, do you?

The way towards simplicity is through outrage.

When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century.

With Quinn, safety wasn’t even an illusion. It was an impossibility

Then when I reached college, I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.

Were the Inhabitants of Italy charming as their Country, all other Regions would be depopulated I think.

It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.

You are all lions – so go your own way. Do not walk the beaten path like sheep, one after another. Do not follow any path. Lions do not follow each other like sheep.

I find that I always also manage to incorporate a simultaneous reflection on cinema history into my films.

I don't believe in director's cuts and I also don't really believe in deleted scenes because the movie that is in theaters, that's what the director made.

There is the process of enlarging a watercolour, which actually amounts to copying its good points and improving its bad ones, and is interesting proportionately as the latter increase.

The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America.