I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.
Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about.
A cult is a religion with no political power.
It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.
If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.
The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.
The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order to derive a permanent future income from it - to convert wealth that perishes into debt that endures, debt that does not rot, costs nothing to maintain, and brings in perennial interest.
Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?
Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.
Magazines don't have enough confidence to have their own style, so they use a borrowed style. That is shocking to me, but your perception is very accurate. It's a way to be more commercially viable, but to me, that's not having a style, that's having a schtick.