The arc of the celebrity phenomenon ultimately is: everything turns to dust and everything does go away.

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

Im very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.

I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.

Most people, 95% of people, are good people. Its the 5% who get seduced by power.

Generally in my films like Hearts of Darkness or Picture This, I try not to make myself a presence in the film.

Obviously you have a responsibility - one would like to think there is such a thing as ethics in filmmaking.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata

In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.

Teach yourself freedom with the same zeal that the world has taught you limits.

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.

Abide not with dualism, Carefully avoid pursuing it; As soon as you have right and wrong, Confusion ensues, and Mind is lost. (172)

I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.

Mass inflation, welfare line, gross economy, trade it all for what's behind curtain number three.

Teaching is a good preparation for politics because you have to reply to questions when you don't know the answer.

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.