We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

What lies ahead of you is challenging but beautiful.

Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall. .

I've always been a very passionate, sometimes overly emotional person. Sometimes things affect me more than they should.

I know a lot of people think, 'She's so glamorous.' But that's really not me at all.

I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers.

A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.

Who owns your body? You or the state?

I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus because it made me unhappy.

We should try to create the society each of us would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be.

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.