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“As my films are born at the moment when they are reflected into another person's mind and memories, there are no misconceptions. I totally accept that different people have seen a different film.”
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“The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.”
Source : "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006. 
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“I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.”
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“Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?”
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“I noticed when I was writing the book that I would tend to mention 'outside' songs right through to about the middle of the 70's. And then all of a sudden that starts disappearing from the book, and just about everything I'm talking about from that point on are the records that I'm totally involved in.”
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“(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.”
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“Never put business before family,”
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“'Facts, facts, facts,' cries the scientist if he wants to emphasize the necessity of a firm foundation for science. What is a fact? A fact is a thought that is true. But the scientist will surely not recognize something which depends on men's varying states of mind to be the firm foundation of science.”
Source : "The thought: A logical inquiry" by Gottlob Frege in "Readings in the Philosophy of Language" edited by Peter Ludlow, (p. 27), 1997.
