If I don't have a script I adore, I do one I like. If I don't have one I like, I do one that has an actor I like or that presents some technical challenge.

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.

All good work requires self-revelation.

Everything becomes creative if the person doing the job is

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.

Good style, to me, is unseen style.

The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't.

It's art. It's commerce. It's heartbreaking and it's fun. It's a great way to live.

I only said 'Titanic' is unwatchable because one can not watch it.

There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.

Whenever and wherever you put yourself in touch with GOD, that is the state of meditation.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

My goal with Gravity Falls is to make people as paranoid and insane as I was as a child, and I'm delighted to see it's working!

We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy.

Without true chaos, we can never have true peace.

It didn't even really matter how good the band was - if someone could keep a beat, then you were prepared to jump up and down and smash around.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing.

In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.

Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.