I realised, in all humility, that chosing to lead one kind of life means putting aside the desire to pursue other option.

Any sensible government must learn to unleash the energy of its people and get them to perform instead of trying to get a bureaucracy to perform.

a person who does not have respect for time, and does not have a sense of timing, can achieve little.

I love you more than I think I should.

Do not despair. Do not give up. Look for the sunlight through the clouds.

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.

The idea that by eating the meat of an animal, the animal powers or faculties could be conveyed to oneself is nonsense and originates in a mental ignorance of the perfect and genuine primitive laws.

Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.

I really worry about the state of the planet and I wish everyone would make a concerned effort not to trash it.

Pilots get made, and they don't go to series. Stuff gets written and never gets made. I've tried to develop stuff that never went. It comes and it goes. It's a part of the process.

I'm no saint, but there are times when I simply cannot sanction freedom from responsibility.

There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound tract of school divinity.