Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

If you can invest all your time into giving birth to a quality product, the whole world will celebrate you and everyone will be in need of your product.

Calling people 'sweetheart' makes most people enraged.

I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

anything, anything is possible, if you can just see the sky.

When I'm creatively solving problems, I'm in my sweet spot, and nothing can take me out of that joyful present.

Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it.

When you do a film, you start to get the character, and then it disappears for a year before it's released and you get feedback.

The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.

Only when you question does society move or advance at all.

When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.