Music, Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Alexander's Feast
I am. . . a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.
Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.
You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.
I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity. . . and, most of all, intellectualism.
When in doubt, make a western.
Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the arch.
In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.
As thou thyself art a component part of a social system, so let every act of thine be a component part of social life. Whatever act of thine that has no reference, either immediately or remotely, to a social end, this tears asunder thy life, and does not allow it to be one, and it is of the nature of a mutiny, just as when in a popular assembly a man acting by himself stands apart from the general agreement.