When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.
I think the script is the key. Regardless of how great everybody else is working on a film, if you're working on a script that you don't think is great, you're not gonna be able to make a great film. Whereas if the script is great, then you can.
I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done.
Fin: [after Noah and Allie kept saying 'You look great.'] [to Allie] Fin: You look great. [to Noah] Fin: You look great. And I know I look great.
In order to become great we must allows others to become great before us, and not be envious of their greatness but rather rejoice in it. So that when we become great, there will be others who shall rejoice in ours.
I hated all this: the mystery of myself.
The spirit of God is mighty upon us.
Spirit is a tangible substance.
My cock was hard, but my spirit wasn't in it.
Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.
Spirit means Breath and without one or the other there is no life.
The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.
I believe in spirits, not ghosts.
Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.
A spirit of suspicion is not the gift of discernment.
I have a very independent spirit.
The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.
A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.
The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
I do games of solitaire when I get home to quiet my spirits.
