What is done, is done: Spend not the time in tears, but seek for justice.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.

I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.

I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism.

When in doubt, make a western.

Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?

Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.

Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.

From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

If you change your way of thinking and being, you will change your way of seeing.

The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.

I love to see movies and just other embarrassing stuff.

Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

As far as artists and musicians, they don't retire. They might tour less.

If I made an album just to sell you a story about how I'm the man, it really doesn't show any human side to me. It's good to talk about what's real and what's relevant.

I hate the way chorus boxes sound