I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.

I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.

St. Clair clears his throat. 'My fiancée and I are headed out for a celebratory dessert. I'd ask you all to join us, but I don't want you there.

I was raised to farm work.

Keep going is keep growing only if one keeps adding values in others' lives through the path of his life's journey

Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?' I don't know what I'm having for my tea tonight let alone a five-year plan.

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all.

[Long Island] is buoyant, it's on the outskirts of Manhattan, and so they have access to phenomenal restaurants.

How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!

Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish.

And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky.