Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom. – Henri Bergson
We regard intelligence as mans main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate. – Henri Bergson
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. – Henri Bergson
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. – Henri Bergson
My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them. – Fran Lebowitz
Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isnt really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and theyre more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios. – Vincent Cassel