Diamonds cut diamonds.

Truth is child of Time.

Love is a tyrant, resisted.

Busy opinion is an idle fool.

He hath shook hands with time.

When in doubt, make a western.

Revenge proves its own executioner.

Revenge proves it's own executioner.

How did I get to Hollywood? By train.

Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.

Electronics is clearly the winner of the day.

Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner.

They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.

Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.

Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive.

I love making pictures but I don't like talking about them.

The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.

Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.

Not only does God play dice with the universe, He's using loaded dice.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

What is done, is done: Spend not the time in tears, but seek for justice.

Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles.

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.

Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.

Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.

Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.

Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?

Love is dead; let lovers' eyes, Locked in endless dreams, The extremes of all extremes, Ope no more, for now Love dies.

To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.

Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth

Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.

Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.

A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.

The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism.

I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.

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