Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere.

Life is a race; desire the goal.

Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.

Great events are the hour-hands of time, while small events mark the minutes.

I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.

I make static art, not dynamic art. That's what I do.

You dare your Yes - and experience a meaning...You repeat your Yes - and all things acquire a meaning...When everything has a meaning, how can you live anything but a YES.

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense.

If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea.

Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it.

How you all will change the work after I am gone. If I came back a hundred years from now, I just wonder if I would even recognize it.

I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.