Don't make jokes about food.

When you're in the desert, you look into infinity.... It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big.

Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.

I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures.

Good films can be made only by a crew of Dedicated Maniacs.

My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors.

I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters.

Please write an ending where the Martians are defeated. Don't take away your readers' hope.

Depend upon it, he who wishes to win the prize must come on the principle that two and two make four.

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

Nobel prize-calibre geniuses often have certain core autistic features at their heart.

Donald Trump singled out three particular states where he claimed there was, quote, "serious voter fraud" - Virginia, New Hampshire and California. Trump lost all three of those states.

The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some degree lovable.

Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it's a wonderful problem, because it doesn't look so easy.

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.

I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.

For me, philosophy is an activity of thought that is common to human beings. Human beings at their best.