Changes are not unusual – I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it’s the end of the world.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: ‚What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?‘

Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I’ve always thought it isn’t that different from everybody else’s.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

I really don’t pay attention to the outside world when I’m incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don’t pay attention to what’s going on outside of jail, because it’s all beyond my control.

Some men do think I’m a psycho bunny-boiler.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called ‚walking.‘

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

I think it’s a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

I’ve always loved the idea of playing Black Adam.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don’t think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

Human beings need stories, and we’re looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it’s television, whether it’s comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it’s very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

I’d go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn’t know who I was. And things just get really dark.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Just because you’ve seen ‚My Cousin Vinny‘ doesn’t qualify you to be a federal judge.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?