So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor.
There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.
Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.
What its children become, that will the community become.
Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.
No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.
under a monopolistic economic system the opportunity to earn a living by one's labour comes to be regarded as a privilege instead of a natural right. Women are simply held to be less entitled to this privilege than men.
If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're as a filmmaker really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart. That's what people will do, people will naturally tear stuff apart because they're trapped with it, they paid money for it. And they came into it wanting to love it. So all you can really do is piss off the audience. Unless you do things right.
We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.
The interpretation of dreams is a great art.