There's a lot of films I've done I don't ever wanna see again.
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don't know the first thing about it.
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
If we couldn't laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
When I think of the Harlem Renaissance, I think of bright colors, and bold, dynamic art. African American artists of the period were, in large measure, breaking out of the constrictions white society had set for them. They were claiming and remaking their own images, and doing so in bold and striking ways.
The Jewish people, ever since David slew Goliath, have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership.
Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.
There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it.