1. “A sense of humour is common sense dancing.”
2. “The inevitable effect of a biographer’s hindsight is to belittle the subject’s foresight .”
3. “Not everyone who ants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film.”
4. “Stop worrying, nobody gets out of this world alive.”
5. “All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness.”
6. “A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.”
7. “All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.”
8. “Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.”
9. “Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.”
10. “The key to effective teaching is to remember how you learned.”
