Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.

Use filmmaking for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some drowsy minds. Wake the whole world up with your movies. It has been sleeping for long. Its eternal sleep has become its darkest nemesis. Now is the time to wake it up.

The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.

Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.

Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness.

Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste – romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the plain everyday human kindness.

A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.

Make movies my friend – make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul.

Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.

Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.

Joan of Arc should be played as a pain in the ass and how do I know she was a pain in the ass? ... because they burn her at the end.

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.

Acting a part is not always synonymous with lying; it is far often the best way of serving the truth. It is more truthful to act what we should feel if the community is to be well served rather than behave as we actually do feel in our selfish private feelings.

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.

Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents.

By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act.

If you give audiences a chance they'll do half your acting for you.

There are five stages in the life of an actor 1) Who's Mary Astor? 2) Get me Mary Astor 3) Get me a Mary Astor type 4) Get me a young Mary Astor 5) Who's Mary Astor?

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.