Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema.
Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.
Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.
From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.
It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.
The last safe place is safe no more.
Well, who’s real? The living or the dead?
You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.
Words without experience are meaningless.