I think it was Laurence Olivier who said that one of the things you have to accept in art is that when you put your heart into doing something there will be people who don't like it for really good reasons, really smart people who don't like what you've done for very valid reasons. That is hard to accept, that there are really valid reasons for not liking anything. The astonishing thing is that there haven't been many valid reasons for anyone not to like this movie.
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To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
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So little time we live in Time, And we learn all so painfully, That we may spare this hour's term To practice for Eternity.
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Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature . . . no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.
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The end of man is knowledge but there's one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him.
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the pomp Of pain swells like the Indies, or a plum
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Las Vegas is a town built on bad math.
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You tolerate me, you really tolerate me. Accepting his Independent Spirit Award
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Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
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Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But, if men be bad, let the government be ever so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.
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If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch, indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.
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If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.
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All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.
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Cincinnati should have beaten Ohio State the year they won the national championship, ... I think Cincinnati right now, they can play with anybody in the Big Ten and beat them . . . anybody, whether it's Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State or whomever it may be.
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Believe nothing against another but on good authority and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
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No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory, no glory no cross, no crown.
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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
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Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
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They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
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Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.
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They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice
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If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants.
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True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
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Luck is probability turned personal.
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If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers.
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True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns
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