Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.

Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

We avoid risks in life only to die, and end up facing the greatest risk which is having lived life risking nothing at all.

Life tends to deliver on what we order…so when you think I’m worthless, you get a life fitting what thought. When you think I’m fabulous…you get that.

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words, ideas.

The zeal of atheists is the most admirable thing about them.

The more talented the opponent, the luckier you are. You have draw a great deal of strength from your being.

Sometimes I think I'm liquefying like an old Camembert.

As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.

It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.