I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

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.

Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.

Machines are non living things, but they still can absorb human attitudes.

Where was my guardian angel when I needed him most? If only I knew.

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value.

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.

You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one.

I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad...until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people.

The Saviour of mankind Himself, in whose blameless life malice could find no act to impeach, has been called in question for words spoken.