"There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads turned backwards."

“I strongly believe that whenever there's failure or you feel like you've failed, it's only just the beginning, and you can only learn from it.”

“Learn everything you know in all keys.”

“No statement, theological or otherwise, should be made that would not be credible in the presence of burning children.”

Source : Irving Greenberg (1998). “The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays”, p.253, Jason Aronson, Incorporated

“I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government.”

“The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.”

“Lo! on a narrow neck of land, 'Twixt two unbounded seas, I stand. Secure, insensible.”

“For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like how do I make this film. That's part of the pleasure and that's why I'm not a normal professional director.”

“Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.”