Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.

People talk about great motivators, but I think motivation has to come from within the individual first, because if you haven't got that inner strength yourself, and belief and you want to do well, it doesn't matter what anybody else says. You have to have that; it has to be inbuilt.

The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.

Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.