“I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.”

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.

And we forget because we must and not because we will.

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.

Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.

The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.

Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.

Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.

The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.

Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.

Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.

The idea of starting with that Kanye [West] song is declarative. It says, “This is the kind of story we’re telling.”

it’s possibly to bring out one’s individuality. If this idea appeals to you,

I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated.

I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.

When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with.

The “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.

But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.

Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?