When a kid plays football before he attends a class, something is wrong.
A mental healer may be a psychiatrist. A psychiatrist may or may not be a mental healer.
Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
If you have passion for what you do, the company you keep, the life you live, it will be reflected in whatever you create. Passion is like that; it springs out, jumps, unpredictable and unplanned, into everything we touch. If it doesn't, others know. Passion can't be faked and it can't be manufactured. Which is why it is so priceless.
A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university. . . This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad.
The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.
Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.
Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.
It is a belief in human potential that has guided me through my time in Government.
It helps if you really enjoy your jobs. If you don't, then just think about the money.