You can't legislate sobriety.

Understand life's mysteries, - as mysteries to be lived.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains.

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.

The thing that's interesting about wire walking is that we never get to see it other than looking up. It's like a circus thing. It's a guy on a wire.

I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

Movies are movies. Some bend light through a lens. Some create moving images virtually. At the end of the day, movies are movies.

He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour.

I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.

Violence existed before our music was even suggested.

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered.

I still get awful depression. It's who I am.

You want to be able to say anything when you do your first draft, because some of that goofy stuff that you think has nothing to do with it is probably where the mother lode is.

Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities.