Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
Children and scientists share an outlook on life. 'If I do this, what will happen?' is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist.
When you make a film, you realize that the audience will be powerless to stop it or flip back to refresh their memories or skip the boring parts. They are at the mercy of your storytelling.
I think they will feel refreshed because I cater to a mature audience.
Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.
We are entering an age where people can claim to know more about what really happened than the people who were there. Where people will dismiss eyewitness accounts, on the basis of their gut feelings; where they will refute scientific discoveries because the scientist just doesn't look trustworthy.
When anyone arouses my anger, I will immediately pray for them and regain my peace of soul.
It seems to me we are now, since 1789, going through the same sort of process of regeneration the Roman world went through between 300 and 500. It is only to be hoped all civilization will not again be destroyed by the anarchists.
The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there.
However painful or regrettable Brexit may be, it will not stop the E.U. as it moves to the future; we need to move forward.
I will always put family first. Every time I haven't, I have regretted it and apologised.
I think the GOP, the Grand Old Party, the Republicans, they will regroup.
I think you have a danger of regulating, putting regulations in place which will mean there will be no press in 10 years to regulate.
I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce.
Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.
I started as a straight actor. I'd go onstage, and I'd think, 'Wow, this is the only thing I want to work really hard at. I will rehearse fifty times on a single scene; I don't care - I'll do it again.'
In 'There Will Be Blood,' my character was someone who was an actor himself almost. He had a rehearsed quality about him. He was a performance artist in a way.
But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.
We never work on only one project because we never know if we will get permission for a project. So, for 'Over the River,' we started in 1992. I was just finishing 'The Umbrellas' in Japan and California, and I was also working on getting permission to wrap the Reichstag.
The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
