The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.

Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.

Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I've been able to do for my family, my word.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

When I hear the word culture - I release the safety-catch of my Browning.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.