It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.

Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.