We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't hard.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

I find love is more of a bacterium than a virus unless you are comparing it to herpes.

I call prodigy all that is invented, all that begins to exist from the second it is conceived, it is the process not the results, the principle and not the fruits.

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

Geological time is not money.

It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just comedies where the love story is only there as a spine to hang the jokes on.

I say with my own authority that if you go on questioning without accepting anybody's answer, including mine, by and by you will find that the answer is not found but the question disappears.

I'm always trying to have a good time on set because that's when things happen. That's when you're playful.

Safety is the most basic task of all. Without sense of safety, no growth can take place. Without safety, all energy goes to defense