“I will either find a way, or make one.”

“I think it is really important to be in some way provocative -- either intellectually or viscerally -- in the films one makes.”

“He [Hercules] will find a way — or make one.”
inveniet viam aut faciet.

“When I left Paris in 1954, I saw no art that was being 'made' like mine and returning to the U. S. I found no one 'making' art that way either. In my own work, I have never been interested in painterliness (or what I find is) a very personal handwriting, putting marks on a canvas. My work is a different way of seeing and making something and which has a different use.”

“Societies either roll on blindly to disaster or they find the inner strength to stop themselves long enough to find ways for reform from within.”

“Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.”

“If you or any one else will take the trouble and have the inteligence and paitince to follow and examine every one of my crimes and actions you will find that I have consistently followed one idea thru all my life. I preyed upon the weak the harmless or unsuspecting. Those I have harmed were all either weaklings either mentaly or phisicaly. Those who were strong in either mind or body I first lied to and led into a trap where they were either asleep or drunk or helpless in some way. I always had all the best of it, because I knew ahead of time just what to expect and the others did not. I therefore was strong in my knolledge and stronger in body than those preyed upon. This lesson I was taught by others. Might makes right.”

“If it's meant to be, they'll find a way to make it work eventually.”

“When I started worrying about stocks, it was the late 1930s and early 1940s and it didn't seem like a good way to make money then, either.”

“The only thing I do know for sure is that if we both want to, we’ll find a way to make it work.”