Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Today is a new day.You will get out of it just what you put into it.

The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.

Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something

"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

I saw Hollywood born and I've seen it die...

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You can start over any moment you choose.

The employment equation used to be built on a foundation of two-way loyalty. The world has changed. Today, successful employment relationships can only be sustained on a foundation of two-way honesty

World history is a court of judgment.

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

Life may as properly be called an art as any other.

Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.

I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.

You sacrificed for us - you're the real MVP.

I'm intrigued that the same letters from the alphabet are used in the word silent and in the word listen. Perhaps it's evidence that the most important part of listening involves remaining silent.

There were times when i felt in a slump or lonely but i never thought of giving up