To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

With friends like you - who needs enemas.

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

Do we love watching things burn so much that our best and most valuable contribution is to help toss another match?

Single-minded concentration in the direction of your dreams intensifies your desires and increases your self-confidence.

I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.

I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because I like freshness and originality.

Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.

Story is about eternal, universal forms, not formulas.

In England, life is a long process of composing oneself.