I knew I wanted to work in Cinemascope because I find it much more beautiful just in terms of the shape of the screen, the wider image, and it's also less like television, which is important.

Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader

I like to write about love plus an obstacle. Not a really big obstacle; not too serious and not too funny. Just somewhere nicely in between - a combination of the two.

You want to surround yourself with people who are as dedicated to their discipline as you are to yours and let them do what they do.

Believe me, you can be in the middle of a beautiful take and the next thing you know you're awash in people crossing the street. You can't even find your actors.

It's funny when you put music up against picture, and all your preconceptions go away, and you start over. You just realize that that doesn't work at all.

There are people who are put on this earth to do everything.

I think everybody has a little rule follower and a little rule breaker in them.

It's always hard, but it's always fun to attack a premise that you think is interesting. It does take a few drafts for sure.

Sometimes you go against what they say because you believe in it anyway.

Love's key unlocks joy's door.

Academic success depends on research and publications.

I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh. "I wish I were there to be doing it, too.

But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and perfect

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

I build only living stones--men.

Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

people want you to be happy, don't keep serving them your pain

I am always amazed how much a certain facility with a special and apparently narrow technique can accomplish.