"There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse."

"The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with."

"We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go."

"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."

"Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult."

"I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched."

"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."

"People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year."