“I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There's something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.”

“Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.”

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

“The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.”

“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.”

“We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.”

“It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.”

“What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.”