I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. 

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. 

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Peace is its own reward.

Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.