The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Water is the soul of the Earth.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

If it's working keep doing it. If it's not working stop doing it. If you don't know what to do don't do anything.

A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.

If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me.

We are rather like children, who must take a watch to pieces to see how it works.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Sometimes I think it'd be fun to do a completely different job for a while. You've got one life and you do the same job for the whole of it, and you think - was that a good use of a life?

None of us works entirely in a vacuum. Unless you are uncompromisingly working to please yourself you must think to whom your photography is directed and how is it likely to be received.

True masters are those who've chosen to make a life rather than a living.

Let us start with the title of War and Cinema. The important part of the title is not War and Cinema.

A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.