A person's age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea..

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part o….

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them..

We actors don't travel as tourists with a camera, we really get to enter the life of a place and get to know it..

My health is very much improved..

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his ….

I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate..

Freebase? What's free about it?.

I’m increasingly attracted by the idea that there can be at least small pockets where life and character and beauty and meaning continue. If I could ….

I like to do things that I develop from the ground up..

The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time..

I do not understand where the idea came from that opera is only for privileged people, I am as happy singing before 70,000 people at the Millennium S….

The idea of life is to give and receive..

I think that when I first suggested the idea that knowledge should be viewed as a natural kind, many people thought this was just crazy..

I like to know what the gestation of the idea is, I like to know the foundation, and I do a lot of reading and research..

I know I have to stop. We all have to stop. Funny how knowing something's a bad idea doesn't make a difference..

That's what was great about him. He tried. Not many do..

I jump out of the boat [in The Lost World], and I'm trying to swim to the kid, and my boots fill with water, and I start to drown, and the director h….

Paradoxes are useful to attract attention to ideas..

The asp doth on his feeder feed..

A fervently believed idea, even if wrong, dies hard..