The day that witnesses the conversion of our ministers into political and philosophical speculators or scientific lecturers, will witness the final decay of clerical weight and influence.

Those who refuse the long drudgery of thought, and think with the heart rather than the head, are ever the most fiercely dogmatic in tone.

Let's live a lie for today.You’ll spin talesand pretend to love me.And I'll smile

What can you learn from a statue? You can learn to stay calm whatever happens!

Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?

There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.

I'm the type of guy who fails and fails and fails, and then, as if failure has become sick of him, succeeds.

We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is a sheer act of creative will. You have to be prepared to stick with your art no matter what comes your way.

It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.