Shaping it is something I would expect to do together with a writer, because that's a director's job.
Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.
We already know enough to begin to cope with all the major problems that are now threatening human life and much of the rest of life on earth. Our crisis is not a crisis of information; it is a crisis of decision of policy and action.
[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation. ] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once. . . . The time. . . is of the order of two billion years. . . . Given so much time, the "impossible" becomes possible, the possible probable, and the probable virtually certain. One only has to wait: time itself performs the miracles.
The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.
So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.
The concept of war crimes is an American invention.
I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.
Being a dominatrix, sticking my foot up people's asses for money, necessitated that I divorce myself from any sort of objective perspective on what I was doing. In order to think about things as a writer you have to objectify your experience. I couldn't have been enacting that experience if I was objectifying it.
If you think you are going to win, you'll lose. Moreover, if you think you are going to lose, you'll lose.
America's time, unfortunately, for judgment has come. In fact, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us it's not just the judgment of America, but it's a judgment of the world that has been affected by the Shaitan, or "Satan" of America.