To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a piece of paper and I can kill anybody.

The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

Most artists think they're frauds anyway.

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

…in the library…surrounded by things far more dangerous than what roamed the school corridors. For here thoughts were housed.

Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic.

If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.

You feel the pressure of going to university because you need a back-up plan, which is why I enrolled.

I will not fall, I will stand tall, feels like no one can beat me.

Women have allowed you to think that, which is a part of their inaccessibility in using their second attention.

Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

words can never get at the truth.

Dancing of the autumn leaves on the surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake!