"If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up."

"Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual."

"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives."

"The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be."

"A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it."

"Love is what we call the situation which occurs when two people who are sexually comptatible discover that they can also tolerate one another in various other circumstances."

"A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last."

"Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form."

"I've been traveling so much, I haven't had time to grow it."

"To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him."