In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

Moonlight is sculpture.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Genius is sorrow's child.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.