Victorious troops are those who kill more, and here we were the victims. This put the finishing touch to our demoralisation. The soldiers had lost conviction long ago. Now they lost confidence.

Men were snoring, twitching and whimpering, struggling with nightmares less terrible than reality.

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

I say making movies is like eating a sandwich of shit. Sometimes you get more bread, sometimes less bread, but you always get shit." (Guardian interview 2006)

Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because you understand it.

One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way.

if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.

Sometimes when I'm not feeling so happy, I do something to make someone else happy then I find I'm suddenly feeling happy again.

The gods behold all righteous actions.

I'm not lucky. If I play another player, even if I don't play really good, I think I can win.

I believe God weeps over - over death. Jesus wept at the grave the Lazarus. In the Bible, Jesus weeps at death.

I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.