To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life. Like being blown out as one blows out a light.

A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all.

It is impossible to control creation.

A true dreamer must be prepared to make any sacrifice for his dream. Even if it means sacrificing himself. The dream must be everything. (The Cardinal to Capac Raimi)

If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.

To worry is to add another hazard.

I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on individualism, and asked myself what the world would be like if men lost the word 'I.'

Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states.

The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!

No pang that is suffered by man or woman upon the earth will be without its compensating effect . . . if it be met with patience.

I never knew until I came here to Hollywood that somebody could be really nice to you for years and really hate your guts. Happens all the time here.

God created two acts of folly. First, He created the Universe in a Big Bang. Second, He was negligent enough to leave behind evidence for this act, in the form of microwave radiation.