If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.
When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.
I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.
Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.
A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.
I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.
The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.
Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.
There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.
I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.
I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.
Great is the hand that holds dominion over/Man by a scribbled name.
A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10 to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety.
I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.
The United States is the leader of the free world.
People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience.
Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.