"The best films are because of nobody but the director."

“Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.”

“As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take up such challenges. And anyway, they are not competent. After all, they are just mathematicians-what we need is paramathematicians, like you... It is you who can be the welding force, between mathematicians and stories, in order to achieve the synthesis.”

“Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.”

“Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical and full of logical contradictions.”

“I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.”

“The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.”

“These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.”

Source : Nathanael Emmons (1842). “The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D.: With a Memoir of His Life [written by Himself]”, p.132

“We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.”

Source : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, ch. 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 27, 1989.