All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.

All good work requires self-revelation.

Everything becomes creative if the person doing the job is

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.

Good style, to me, is unseen style.

The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't.

It's art. It's commerce. It's heartbreaking and it's fun. It's a great way to live.

I only said 'Titanic' is unwatchable because one can not watch it.

There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.

Don't let the difficulty of actually achieving a shot make you think that the shot is good.

Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak.

As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red.

It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.

Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance.

I am, I am not, I will be, I will not be are vein thoughts which is a sickness and once all are eliminated no desire arises.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

I started out wanting to be a straight adventure cartoonist, but in 1979 realized what my real bag was.

What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

There's no sustenance in the past.