Who's the bigger idiot, the idiot or the idiot who gets fooled by the idiot?

In perpetrating a revolution, there are two requirements: someone or something to revolt against and someone to actually show up and do the revolting. Dress is usually casual and both parties may be flexible about time and place, but if either faction fails to attend, the whole enterprise is likely to come off badly.

A general philosophy of the female characters in my films is they all want something to believe in, and not having anything.

I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men. I have the strength of one small boy... with polio.

When you are dead, it is hard to find the light switch.

I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him.