Money's easy to make if it's money you want. But with few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

A man without words is a man without thought.

All great and precious things are lonely.

My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

Courage and fear were one thing too.

Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

People lose their way when they lose their why.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Middle age is when your age starts to show through your middle… and trust me, MIss, your age doesn’t show in the slightest.#dean

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

I'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.

If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone.

Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.

I've always thought that pressure is trying to feed your family, trying to make a mortgage. We play a game...And this is an amazing game.

My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.

Know thy self, know thy enemy.