"A lot of student films in art shows are samey. It's a look at the life of someone making these boring films."

“I never thought that I would have to play an Indian, well half French, but an Indian woman in my life.”

“You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.”

“The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of discovering the solution of problems which were of a highly practical kind in mathematical science, so in physical science many of the greatest advances that have been made from the beginning of the world to the present time have been made in the earnest desire to turn the knowledge of the properties of matter to some purpose useful to mankind.”

“Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.”

“When we think of work, we think of work as an act of service. We think of it as an act of love for humanity.”

“I lost interest in being in the public eye.”

“I am through generalizing about ideas apart from men who generate them. I am through writing books about the dead, or writing books about the living to the unborn (tucked away as Literature) or writing books about the unborn to the living (whiffed away as prophecy). I put up my life on advertising the living to the living, on making men of genius known to the people and interpreted to their time, that the time in which I live, may live face to face with its men of vision and that they may live face to face with one another.”

Source : Gerald Stanley Lee (1919). “The House of Twenty Seven Gardens”

“I believe the Bible to be the written Word of God and to contain in it the whole rule of faith and manners.”