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.

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.

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.

I share my secrets with the moon, She talks about her love story with the sun & I share all my dreams about you.

Aliena's brother, Richard, sometimes reminded her of her father, with a look or a gesture, and that was when she felt a surge of affection.

The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals.

Hearts can break and never make a sound.

On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away.

Nothing you say can ensure that the other person will get it, or respond the way you want. You may never exceed his threshold of deafness.

Angry people cannot create a peaceful planet

First you must have the images, then come the words.

Unfortunately, the greater the humanitarian outreach, the greater the violence required to achieve it.

The best results I have had in my life; the most enjoyable times, have all come from asking the simple question: 'What is the worst that could happen?'