I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

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.

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.

I don't want to make a depressing movie. I want it to allow us to ask some questions and stay asking those questions. How predetermined are our lives? It's something I don't have the answer to.

If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.

We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.

It's very, very rare to find five roles in one piece where we'd all jump at the chance to play any of them.

Silly boy, you got so much to live for, so much to aim for, so much to try for.

A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas - on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor - unless he means something else, quite different - is a rogue.