Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's.
In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.
Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he lists, wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may even appropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if the temple he thus supports be a beautiful one. Goethe understood this very well, and so did Shakespeare before him.
There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.
The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.
Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.
I have a hard time visualizing anything, which is why I'm not a director, and which is why I try to work with ones I know have a strong idea in mind.
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am. " We are ontological oxymorons.