So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.
We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
Good words cool more than cold water.
The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.
There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words.
Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.
If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.
Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.
Now, Marlon and I - for some reason, even today - even today, we can't say two words to each other. We really can't talk to each other. You know, I say to him - Marlon can't talk. I mean, he'd talk to you. But he can't talk.
I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.
When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.