I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

The life of truth is cold.

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?

Hunting, bathing, gaming, laughing: that's living (venari lavare ludere ridere occest vivere).

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man as father. I do not trust man as father.

All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that define the process, so I love it all.

It is not enough to profess faith in the democratic process; we must do something about it.

If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.

It's a real gift to have a husband and wife in the company that love each other and that work together. They check on each other emotionally and physically. That's beautiful to me.

The whole problem of industrial agriculture is putting all of your eggs in one basket. We need to diversify our food chains as well as our fields so that when some of them fail, we can still eat.

I think that there's a very lucid side in cinema: entering a theater and seeing the film.

Possessing a powerful worldwide brand is essential for sustained success.