“Everything you do reverberates throughout a thousand destinies.”

“Throughout the nation's history, the national destiny of the United States has been understood in antimilitaristic, libertarian terms.”

“Everything is predestined in life except the destiny of a man.”

“Everyone when they are young knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.”

“Destiny doesn't do home visits… you have to go for it yourself.”

“Destiny is all, Ravn liked to tell me, destiny is everything. He would even say it in English, “Wyrd biõ ful ãræd.”

“Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.”

“You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?”

“How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task.”

“If the film language and sensibility are not integrated somewhere in the narrative, then they are inconsequential, separate. And if you have one point of view, one aesthetic, one sensibility throughout everything you do, and you don't let people sway you away from that, especially your cinematographer, then the film develops a soul.”