Test everything that can be tested. As soon as you think you know something, that's when you stop questioning it. Understanding kills curiosity. Understanding kills progress.

An old librarian once said to me, " whatever we deal with, coming here is always a visual reward.

You don't always get stronger on the days that everything comes easily to you.

All history is a lie!

Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the if stands for man's choice

A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it.

A dog who thinks he is a man's best friend is a dog who obviously has never met a tax lawyer.

You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

Democratic dissent is not disloyalty, it is a positive civic duty.

I suppose fear is like a drug. A little bit isn't that bad, but you can get addicted to the consumption and distribution of it.

When people 'succeed' they tend to party, when they 'fail' they tend to ponder.