Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so ….

The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a direct confrontation of….

If your heart was as big as your mouth you'd be real..

But the more poetry one reads the more one longs to read!.

We do not become. We simply are..

I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that..

I want to give meaning to the history of the past, but to do it in real time, as if it were lived. This gives a special touch to my films, because yo….

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't..

I won't ever stop until you're either the biggest thing around, or you're dead..

When you make a bet, you're saying something..

I don't want death to suddenly interrupt what I'm doing. I don't like the idea of death at all..

I'm happy to talk to anybody about anything..

There are a few societies that show signs of having been very rational about the physics of construction and the physics of real life. Some of the ol….

I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts..

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it.

Gee, I certainly hope I'm not a scary person in real life. It's not like people run from me when they see me. People are usually pretty nice when the….

New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as an Englishman, I thought….

I never had the blues; the blues always had me..

As accidental as my life may be, or as that random humor is, which governs it, I know nothing, after all, so real or substantial as myself.

I rather like the idea of defying death..

Don't aim at any impossible heroisms. Strive rather to be quiet in your own sphere. Don't live in the cloudland of some transcendental heaven; do you….