We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.

Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.

I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.

What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It's in that exchange and that relationship.

Love everyone, including yourself. This is real sadhana.

You take what you've learned, you pass it down, and you keep working.

I don't regret setting bombs.

There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood.

You just don't invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests!

I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.

I have wasted my hours.

There were always jokes about Hillary Clinton channeling Eleanor Roosevelt, but Eleanor Roosevelt was really instrumental at the UN, and would want to meet with various other delegates.