Things own you. That's the trouble with capitalism. Things own you. With communism and fascism - ideas own you. One idea and you can't have any other.

I always felt the world cannot fall apart as long as free men see the rainbow, feel the rain and hear the laugh of a child.

No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to hundreds of millions of people for two hours in the dark.

My Advice to Young Filmmakers is This: Don't Follow Trends. Start Them!

When you get to political machines that can control a state, then you're really into organized crime - almost. You're fighting a political mafia.

Don't follow trends, start trends.

There are a lot of people who believe that the individual can't make it himself. And that's why people want to join up in various herds - herd formation. So you become part of a herd, a group. Group power of some kind. There's an awful lot of group power people in our country [the USA] - Black power, Chinese power, Indian power, woman power. Everyone is putting in together.