"It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film."

“Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.”

“It's no use to decide what's going to happen unless you have the courage of your convictions. Many a brilliant idea has been lost because the man who dreamed it lacked the spunk of the spine to put it across.”

“The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict from God to withstand the progress of science, whether in the form of a Copernican revolution or a Darwinian theory of natural selection, were not mischievous men but misinformed men. And so Christ's words from the cross are written in sharp-edged terms across some of the most inexpressible tragedies of history: 'They know not what they do'.”

“The one common undertaking and universal instrument of the great majority of the human race is the United Nations. A patient, constructive long-term use of its potentialities can bring a real and secure peace to the world.”

“The game has gone rather scrappy as both sides realise they could win this match or lose it.”

“Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.”

“On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.”

“Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.”