If you have someone on the set for the hair, why would you not have someone for the words?

The longer I live, the less I trust ideas, the more I trust emotions.

It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.

You see the world much better through a camera.

Memory is not frozen, it's very much alive, it moves, it changes.

You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.

Filmmakers don't work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don't last very long. They fade away. In 200 years there will be nothing left of our work but dust.

When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.

I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed.

Well, Fellini... there is always Fellini.

Prayer puts God in the position He deserves - that of King, Governor, Benign Controller, Possessor, Lord, and Master.

You're the fire burning inside of me.

It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.

History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.

Nurture is like psychic Wheaties.

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.

I'm quite grateful to the BBC. They helped me back onto the touring circuit.

Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice

The fruit of the Spirit is the natural produce of his gracious inward influence, the spontaneous and inevitable result of his uniting us to Jesus Christ.

Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.