At best, I see the activity of president as coordinating an ensemble. On the dim days, it is progressively similar to that of a grasp connecting with the motor to impact forward movement, while taking more noteworthy contact

A gun in a film is so culturally specific to America. It looks odd in world cinema unless it’s ironic. I wonder if there are more balls in English films than guns, more nipples in French films. Guns in America’s story are a constant, a plot device, like coffee cups in European films. Guns are Hollywood

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

I’ve always considered myself smarter than everyone around me, and sometimes, believe me, I’ve been ashamed of it. At the least, all my life I’ve looked away and never could look people straight in the eye.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

I’m vile and perverted. I’m obsessed and deranged. I’ve existed for years but very little has changed. I’m the tool of the government and industry too. For I’m destined to rule and regulate you. You may think I’m pernicious, but you can’t look away. I’ll make you think I’m delicious with the stuff that I say. I’m the best you can get… Have you guessed me yet? I’m the slime oozing out of your TV set.

You know, I had a couple hundred jumps in my career, and I made most of them, but the ones they show over and over are the ones when I crashed.

From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.

Envy is an eyesore engendered by looking at another’s success thru the spectacles of our own inferiority.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. If you look at God you’ll be at rest.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.

When I’m a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It’s somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.

You have this great big fantasy life, and it looks like a non-stop 24/7 party. But what do you do when you get to the end of the Internet and there’s nothing left to buy? There’s just a picture of Wayne Newton flipping you off.

Look what I’m dealing with, man, I’m dealing with fools and trolls.

People ask all the time, “What are you thinking?” It’s my least favorite question in the world. The last bastion of solace is my mind. It’s an invasion.

We’re going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I’m going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it’s worth a fortune. I’ll make this a work of magic warlock art.

You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down

Looking at fires when high, by the way, especially through one of those prism kaleidoscopes which image their surroundings, is an extraordinarily moving and beautiful experience.

Through pride, we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience, a still, small voice says to us, ‘Something is out of tune.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes

Every mother contains her daughter in herself, and every daughter, her mother; and every mother extends backwards into her mother, and forwards into her daughter.

It seems impossible that any man could adequately describe his mother. I cannot describe mine

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.