While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

If the bell of intolerance tolls for one, it tolls for all.

Live deep instead of fast.

Live deep instead of fast. I think this is what Thoreau meant.

A short story is simplification to the highest degree

The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and superficial thing

Flatulency today consists in saying simply in several different ways the same thing over and over again.

Even the suicide desires his own good: he wrongly imagines that he would be better off dead. The moral problem is not that we love ourselves but that we love ourselves the wrong way.

It is meaningless to rise while leaving others behind! It is also unethical and selfish! If you know the paths to rise, rise altogether with others!

I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong and he said: "Yes: the little one does."

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.

The secret of love is acceptance, acceptance of our finite self, of our life, our birth ... our death.

I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.

Only some ghastly dehumanised moron would want to get rid of the Routemaster.

Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.