"The most important thing for any director is to have a good script. If you don't have a good script, you might as well not bother."

"I don't believe in inspiration. I believe in hard work, and I believe in technique."

"The most powerful thing in the world is an idea whose time has come."

"The very meaning of life is that it is a struggle. We are put on earth to struggle, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."