Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
Keep to yourself the final touches of your art.
Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.
The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him.
Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties.
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.
The thing about film is that your eye is selective. Film isn't. You have to make film do what you want. Simply photographing something doesn't do it. You have to know how to apply light and know what it does on film.
Unfortunately, many talented people in Hollywood find their values and politics do not reflect the content they create, and many movie themes are in direct contrast with over half of todays American families.