I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

What a tragedy it would be if you lived your entire life without discovering who you are, without reaching your full potential.” Ray Mancini

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.

Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart.

European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance.

Love cannot last without a foundation of forgiveness.

Sin begins in thought, which is the intimation of conscience. So, if the conscience holds sin, then its thoughts shall be evil.

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

I crammed my exams in London and did fine.

Regardless of what you plan on when you fall in love, significant others come and go in your life. Your friends are it. My friends are my everything.