His [Sam Fuller] self-discipline was amazing. No matter what happened, he'd always go out to his Royal Upright typewriter and just keep working on his stories, his "yarns" as he called them.

I had a checkered early career, for sure, with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about.

What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.

Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

Inspirational quotes are dances of light that shine in dark places during your life.

When the brain thinks positively, the hands work positively, the legs run positively and the individual becomes a positive wholesome entity.

Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.

I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.

I haven't done a book for about 3 or 4 years now.

I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.

Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes

What I can't create I don't understand

I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself.

The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true.