The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.

When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

Better a sovereign in squalor than a slave in splendor.

That got me a look so intense I was unable to interpret it - like the way cats sometimes fix on you. What they mean by the look is completely beyond understanding; but it's meant for you, you alone.

At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.

The goal of tyrants is tyranny, and the goal of tyranny is tyranny.

Their eyes persecuted him everywhere, eventually following him all the way into the darkness around his bed and into his dreams, like a madness that threatened to overpower him.

Sweet is true love, though given in vain.

We have a very real God with a very real presence.

the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods.

My advice to women directors is just to make the best work possible.

They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes

Entertainment is not politically neutral.

Yield all and trust all.

I'm obsessive about my job and I want it to be as great as it can possibly be, especially right now in these early parts of my career.

What if the universe were whispering in my ear at every moment?