A lot of filmmaking is all about filtering out the bullshit.
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnership of several countries that will share information and samples, but it is important to remember a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere.
Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They'll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.
It normally happens that if you put two words together, or two syllables together, one of them will attract more weight, more emphasis, than the other. In other words, most so-called spondees can be read as either iambs or trochees.
Either the Anglo-Saxon race will possess the Pacific slope or the Mongolians will possess it. We have this day to choose. . . whether legislation shall be in the interest of the American free laborer or for the servile laborer from China. . . You cannot work a man who must have beef and bread, and would prefer beer, alongside a man who can live on rice.