"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."

“I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one.”

“The rush of power to the head is not as becoming as a new hat”

“The world can do nothing to a Christian who has no fear of man.”

Source : Brother Yun, Paul Hattaway (2009). “The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun”, p.343, Hendrickson Publishers

“In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.”

Source : Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

“By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.”

“People are so codified - it's sad.”

“Not thine the sorrow, but ours, sainted soul! Thou hast indeed entered into the promised land, while we are yet on the march. To us remain the rocking of the deep, the storm upon the land, days of duty and nights of watching; but thou are sphered high above all darkness and fear, beyond all sorrow and weariness. Rest, oh, weary heart!”

“I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.”