The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).

Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

I pray you indulge me for a space, for I am going to set out on a speech which may have some duration, but whose theme may be gleaned from its opening phrase: how dare you.

I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there.

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.

I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.