Those who can't do, teach!

When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while.

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.

Don't think of death as an ending. Think of it as a really effective way of cutting down your expenses.

The process of making films is so technically demanding that it's a distraction. You don't spend your time thinking about the philosophical content, which is often very depressing.

Of all human weakness obsession is the most dangerous. And the silliest.

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.