No one but a fool is always right.
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.
Smiles are the language of love.
The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.
Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.
If the purpose of the stumpy little NFT theatre under Waterloo Bridge is not to acquaint young audiences with Ozu, with Ophuels, with D. W. Griffith and with Agnes Varda, then what exactly does it exist for?
An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.
Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.
To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
Children always turn to the light.
Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.
Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
In oratory the will must predominate.
