[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.

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.

Enlightenment doesn’t make us a better person if we seek it just for us. It doesn’t erase our desires or put an end to even our own suffering. In fact it is the suffering that ennobles us.

I think one of the biggest things that's changed in terms of the rapport with the crowd is that now crowds come to hear our songs. We're getting closer and closer to an artist performance.

We are shallow because we are mayabang, ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

Demographics don't lie, economies don't lie. When the median age of your population is twenty-four-years-old and a quarter of the working population's unemployed - this is not a recipe for success.

There never was found a man who had courage to acknowledge himself a coward.

Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear.

Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.

There is no way that me or anyone else could be like Coach Bryant. I think it would be ridiculous for anyone to try.

Anybody who doesn't have a scandal I have no interest in meeting because they haven't lived their lives.

So they loved as love in twain Had the essence but in one; Two distinct, divisions none.