"We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures."

"I don't want to be charged with child abuse."

"Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles."

"Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a raise it's no surprise that they're giving none away."

"I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals."

"It was reassuring to know exactly where one stood. That one stood at the end of the line was not pertinent. At least there was a line in which to subsist."

"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."

"All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side."

"Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier."

"The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation."

"A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him."

"The arts are the servant; wisdom its master."