Quotes by Hungarian authors

"I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing"

"I aimed at the Archduke. I do not remember what I thought at that moment"

"I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed"

"Politics has become entertainment"

"Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie"

"I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head"

"The terrible, diabolic thing with this disease is that you are always looking behind your shoulder every couple months with the most recent checkup to see whether there is any sign of it, and I thank God to say at this point there is not"

"Now on a personal level with things like the California Tax Commission... I really think if people started banding together and saying no to this it could snowball and that could really help"

"I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen"

"I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime"

"From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing"

"And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet"

"That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places"

"I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking"

"From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better"

"Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit"

"There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies"

"I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness"

"I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power"

"Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life"

"I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it"

"I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms"

"The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life"

"But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees"

"A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you"

"The Cube can seem alive as it heats up in your hand. The fact that each face of the Cube is made of three layers of three blocks has an important meaning"

"I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible"

"Usually we are saying only part of the truth"

"The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life"

"Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down"