The Screen Is A Magic Medium.

If It Can Be Written, Or Thought, It Can Be Filmed.

The Destruction Of This Planet Would Have No Significance On A Cosmic Scale: To An Observer In The Andromeda Nebula, The Sign Of Our Extinction Would Be No More Than A Match Flaring For A Second In The Heavens: And If That Match Does Blaze In The Darkness There Will Be None To Mourn A Race That Used A Power That Could Have Lit A Beacon In The Stars To Light Its Funeral Pyre. The Choice Is Ours.

The Great Nations Have Always Acted Like Gangsters, And The Small Nations Like Prostitutes.

I've Got A Peculiar Weakness For Criminals And Artists. Neither Takes Life As It Is. Any Tragic Story Has To Be In Conflict With Things As They Are.

I’ve Never Been Certain Whether The Moral Of The Icarus Story Should Only Be, As Is Generally Accepted, ‘don’t Try To Fly Too High,’ Or Whether It Might Also Be Thought Of As ‘forget The Wax And Feathers, And Do A Better Job On The Wings.