When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

You look so good," I say, and s***! Oh god, that's not what I meant. S***! "It looks good. The book.

Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear

You know, anyone who wears glasses, in one sense or another, is a cyborg.

I have got a reputation to protect.

Love me litle, love me long.

It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

Believe me, you can be in the middle of a beautiful take and the next thing you know you're awash in people crossing the street. You can't even find your actors.