Today the family is being attacked and defended with equal vehemence.

Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.

Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

When people break off relationships, they break them both from the outside and from within. The external spoils because of circumstances, but the inner [inside] must not spoil.

It is an undoubted truth that the neck and throat of a highbred woman are incomparably more beautiful than in the woman of lower origin. Blood will tell

The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point

Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.

I think the film gives you a picture of a person. It gives you a complete picture.

If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.

People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.