I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level. Use this quote
I'm very happy in France making movies. Use this quote
Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps. Use this quote
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before. Use this quote
Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope. Use this quote
Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books. Use this quote
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. Use this quote
Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift. Use this quote
Our life is made by the death of others. Use this quote
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. Use this quote
It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself. Use this quote
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. Use this quote
I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role. Use this quote
The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt. Use this quote
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. Use this quote
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Use this quote
Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same. Use this quote
I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well. Use this quote
The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal. Use this quote
I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished. Use this quote
