If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.

I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's three tenses in one.

I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?

I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.

Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.

Compassion is the magic ingredient to an amazing life.

Wise people understand the need to consult experts

The nature of life is to face us with ourselves, until we are able to handle the problems that knocked us into the dirt yesterday.

Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought.

Good judgment, common sense, and reason all fly out the window when emotions kick down your door.

Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.

Debate is so much better than denial.

Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men.

I find myself dreaming of doing normal things - like staying home and washing dishes.

It is better to rely on yourself than on your friends.