Masterpieces, not always distinguished or distinguishable among all the works with pretensions to genius, are scattered about the world like warning notices in a mine field.

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

No other art can compare with cinema in the force, precision, and starkness with which it conveys awareness of facts and aesthetic structures existing and changing within time.

behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.

Some days I’mtrying to forcea smile sohard it feelslike I mightshit my pants

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.

As it is, plain reasoning assures me I am not indispensable to the universe: but with this reasoning, somehow, does not travel my belief.

Even when there’s a straight path in front of us, we, unfortunately, and foolishly, turn right~ around and it’s after that we realize it.

How do you have five children in a row, each on a different say?” “They’re gods,” Carter said. “They can do stuff like that.

I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.