To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.

The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.

To save the world is the simplest thing in the world. All one has to do is think.

Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.

The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.

The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents.

What one needs to know in order to appraise a man morally is not: what did his mother say or do when he was three? The proper question is: what does he say and do now?

The artist is the closest man comes to being God.

I love like a beaten child and I trust like an addict.

One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other.

Los Angeles has interested me for a long time. I was in Texas for five years, for the same reason. I wanted to photograph there.

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

Me and my band and crew have always lived by the code: 'Work hard, play harder.'

Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.

Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.

The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films.