"Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images"

"Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!"

"Prestige is the shadow of money and power"

"Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers"

"The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding"

"Power wears out those who don't have it"

"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles"

"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one"

"The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance"

"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual"

"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty"