Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

E. M. Cioran

Life is ours to be spent, not tobe saved.

D.H. Lawrence

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

Serj Tankian

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

Diane Wakoski

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Benjamin Franklin

Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

Alexander Dumas

In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out.

Source Unknown

...never be disappointing - you may wound me, but you must never be disappointing...

John Geddes

The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election.

John Major

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

Henry Miller

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

Leo Buscaglia

There is no bigotry like that of free thought run to seed.

Horace Greeley