My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.

Nature gives us... passions and desires suitable to our present state. We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves...

Blaise Pascal

The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.

Laura Prepon

The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity.

Alfred Adler

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.

Boris Yeltsin

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

Roger Bannister

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

Lars von Trier

An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.

Proverb

very funny my sarcastic friend

Cassandra Clare

My dad, like many Southern men, is this very emotionally expressive person who isn't as articulate in words about his feelings as he is with breaking a chair or something like that.

Lucy Alibar

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

Albert Camus

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

Sojourner Truth