I prefer true over happy now..

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing..

I had very high respect for the Pratt Institute, but I thought that I had done my best, and that was not their version of the best..

What can go wrong will go wrong..

You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid.

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

I make movies for money, exclusively for money..

You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism..

we are not here just because we have nowhere else; we need nowhere else, because we have the Institute, and those who are in it are our family..