No one ever claimed that creating art was simple. But they failed to mention the mess.

You’re either the one that creates the automation or you’re getting automated.

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home.

He must not laugh at his own wheeze: a snuff box has no right to sneeze.

That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.

When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say 'wow, that was an adventure,' not 'wow, I sure felt safe.'

The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

I think by being happy it actually affects the way that you look too.

The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.

...That's the difference between backpackers and holiday makers. The former can't help but invite hassle whilst the latter pay to escape it.

Why do I need clothes?" she said as she found the black lacy pair she'd been looking for. "Two words -- burnt eggs.

Fear is a belief - beliefs can be changed.

These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it's true to life.

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.

There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.

No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.

Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.

Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.