Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

不必担忧财富不多，只须担忧财富不平均，不必担忧人口稀少，只须担忧境内不安宁。……既来了，要使他们安家乐业。

Legal systems are not merely systems of rules, but also systems of power.

Every word is a step towards understanding.

真正的圣贤，决不是愚腐不化。真正的豪杰也绝不是粗鲁疏略。