Now I've laid me down to die I pray my neighbors not to pry Too deeply into sins that I Not only cannot here deny But much enjoyed as life flew by.

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

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.

When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.

The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.

I should have had the pickle.

You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.

Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.

I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.

The whole history of the Canadian north can be divided into two periods - before and after the aeroplane.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

I am more or less reading all the time.

I understand so very little. But I am not afraid to look: I am a good observer at last. My eyes are open, and I am not afraid.

I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.

In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.