You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

'Faces' became more than a film. It became a way of life, a film against the authorities and the powers that prevent people from expressing themselves the way they want to, something that can't be done in America, that can't be done without money.

By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.

Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won't understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel.

Everyone who makes a film is at the major distributors' mercy.

I hate entertainment.

I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.

I think I probably have the philosophy of a poor man. You know, like maybe I'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes.

I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man.

I think people are very stiff. Money makes people stiff, and we want it, and we have to pay the penalty. I never agreed with stiffness. I think people have an understanding of what their life is. I define success by being a realist and not humiliating people. I'm a revolutionary - but not in the political sense.

I won't call my work entertainment. It's exploring. It's asking questions of people, constantly. 'How much do you feel? How much do you know? Are you aware of this? Can you cope with this?' A good movie will ask you questions you don't already know the answers to. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.

I would put my pictures up against anybody's in this world. Certainly in my own day I bow to no one. I don't think there's another director in the world who works harder to make better films than I do.

I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.

My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself.

My parents allowed their two sons to be individuals. My family was a wild and wonderful place, with lots of friends and neighbors visiting and talking loud and eating loud and nobody telling the children to be quiet or putting them down.

People don't know what they are doing most of the time. They don't know what they want. It's only in 'the movies' that they know what their problems are and have game plans to deal with them.

The camera is the slave to the actor.

The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination.

There is no reason why a serious film, one about life, can't be enjoyable, maybe even fun. Emotions can be very entertaining, you know. I try to use them generously in my films.

We only have two hours to change people's lives.

You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.

You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm a gangster. If I want something, I'll grab it.

Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

I do think that our freedoms are at risk.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight.

I don't see the risk, I enjoy performing stunts, and I don't get scared.

Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.

What you risk reveals what you value.

For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked.

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

Every day, hundreds of thousands of men and women protect and serve, often putting their own lives at risk.

When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine.

I'm fighting for small businesses. I'm not fighting for big oil. Don't be confused. And there are thousands of businesses in this state that are at great risk. Meanwhile, the country keeps guzzling the oil, but we're out of work down here. We need to get back to work to build this region, and we intend to do so.

Nothing in life and nothing that we do is risk-free.

I feel that David took a risk with me. I have a sense that by starting off in the theatre and going off to do films you are seen to sell out in some way. I don't hold truck with that, but you can't stop people from feeling it.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.

The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.