What I'm trying to do with most of my work is establish this new modernism, ... If people don't walk out of theatres saying, 'Yes, something is possible,' then you've failed.
Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done! [Apocryphal]
If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.