All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

I don't want to be more famous than what I have right now. At least in that sense where people come up to me in the grocery store.

You must have love as the core it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

Encryption is over, see you in four years.