Love is nothing but the fear of mortal man at the thought of solitude.

When we overemphasise miracles, we compromise the gospel we were asked to preach.

There's no guarantee that the United States will be around 200 years from now.

As a director, you've got to have quite a few projects going because you never know which one will actually come together with the financing and get the green light.

Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent man is determined by his tolerance toward them.

Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

'Pulp Fiction' blew my mind; beforehand, I'd watch films and there was a beginning, middle and an end, and that's it. There is in that film, too, but it's out of sequence.

...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.