I've lived my life again just telling it to you..

It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must beli….

I make movies for money, exclusively for money..

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it..

Controlled hysteria is what's required. To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It's agony. But everyone has agony. The difference is ….

Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness r….

Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just ….

Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of it induced ….

I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you li….

Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates..

I'm getting to the place where I can sort of go through airports now and there's no hysteria. I can go places alone even. But at the same time, if yo….

The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swa….

To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for thos….

We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion - a lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism or for a….

To the last we have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No one truly believes, despite the….

Keep the people ignorant and afraid and control and power becomes a detail - a self generating byproduct of the people's hysteria..

It seems to me a measure of the true perversity of the human race, that one of its very few reliably pleasurable activities should be the subject ….

Increasingly fed by a moral and political hysteria, warlike values produce and endorse shared fears as the primary register of social relations..

Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience..

One cannot overstate the potential for hysteria on a movie set. Everyone always acts as if making the movie is as important as eradicating malaria..

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were….