Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

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

Freedom lies in being bold.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

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

You always admire what you really don't understand.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.