I've always traveled with the films because I want the audience to be my teacher so that I can learn for the next one.

I think yes is the most beautiful and necessary word in the English language.

To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin.

My writing method is to sit in a very small hut absolutely alone. I write in total solitude. And I write on paper, on hand, and then it gets typed. Normal for me.

The female struggle implies the black struggle, it implies the struggle with anti-Semitism, it implies all of the other struggles. That is the only possible way to think about human liberation.

That does it, " said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year.""Why?" Isabelle said."So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Living ain't easy, loving's twice as tough.

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.

If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up.

Yeah when I was 7 or 8 my moms would have little parties, and I would play the music.

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.

... no compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism.