Life is a state of mind.
What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether.
When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.
Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.
The only thing I really wanted was the freedom to be able to get what I want on film. I’ve dealt with the MPAA since 1973, so I know how to renegotiate and rework.