There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations then let it be seen that way.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

Since every man desires happiness it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are or respond to them as provocation then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.

Freedom morality and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this that he does good not because he is forced to do so but because he freely conceives it wants it and loves it.