I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.

Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt.

Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.

As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.

One must desire something to be alive.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

Nothing may be more selfish than remorse.

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

It’s amazing what you can do when you get creative.

Wake up with a smile and go after life.... Live it enjoy it taste it smell it feel it.

When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.

It is the worst atrocity underway [in Rwanda]. But it's barely in the media, and people just don't know about it. And that's quite generally true.

Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.

I like to discover new things.

As a director, it's my job to provoke, and when people decided 'The Room' be called a phenomenon, or whatever you call it, it's fine with me.

I think there is a big question in how much music a film needs - a lot of films are overloaded for my taste, so that the story can't carry its own weight.