How did I get to Hollywood? By train.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.

I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.

I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism.

When in doubt, make a western.

Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?

Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.

Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.

When you go into the world you would not even notice when you become dead

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries.

I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.

I love the Constitution and government of this land, but I hate the damned rascals that administer the government.

You're human. You'll screw up. Denying that is crazy. Forgiving yourself has all the benefits of self-esteem without making you a narcissist that's out of touch with reality.

As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution.

My art is for anybody, it's for people who wouldn't go into an art gallery. It's art for the people.

I have come with one medicinal herb that I am offering as a remedy to India's problems. And that medicinal herb is 'development'.

How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is surrounded by matter, or matter is surrounded by meaning.