Crime is a left- handed form of human endeavor.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.

Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams

A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.

What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene.

I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.

A rare, deep and passionate love.

There is a vibrational effect in every action, just as there is vibration that rings from every letter in every word.

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

The books that are really valuable are the books that evoke a sense of place.

Do not be sad that you have suffered, be glad that you have lived.

Most of the world around you doesn't read the Bible. So... God gives the world a living epistle- you.

The only thing that happens if you wait, is that you get older.

The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.

It's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.