And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001.

For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.

I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted.

there's no clarity. there was never meant to be clarity.

Good soldiers, bad officers; however don't forget that without them we would not have any Civilization.

When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

Fill a space in a beautiful way.

The higher I get the lower I sink.

Why bother lifting weights if you aren't following a sound nutritional regimen? Sure, it may be fun, but are you really accomplishing anything?

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Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.

The public be damned. I am working for my stockholders.