Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

No one but a fool is always right.

In oratory the will must predominate.

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.

The future of American film lies on television.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.