Having one perfect thing was less important than having a range of ideas, realizing they were all taking you in a certain direction.

Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea.

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.

Beauty doesn't have anything to do with prettiness. Beauty has to do with something else; it gets into an area where words can't go.

Style is the most ephemeral thing I know. It's not about how effective you are it's about how you are effective.

My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.

Sometimes other people have better ideas.

It's interesting that there are places that words can't get to.

My education was an education by movies.

when you see me i see you

Although the world is full of suffering it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Those who cling to life die and those who defy death live.

Enemies strike at weak points.

My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.

Before my mother died, she told me not to leave Chelsea.

I've had my say out, and I shall be the' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be corked up forever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel.

Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.

My experience tells me that any time you hear people laughing on a sitcom, it's the writers who happen to be closest to the microphones - not the audience.

If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.