If you're not making epic, archetypal films on some level, I think you're wasting a great potential of cinema.

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

Every science fiction is a reading of the period that produced it.

we compose our life in stories we tell ourselves

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.

The key to success? Work hard, stay focused and marry a Kennedy.

I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.

God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on the earth

An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.

I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it.

I was stationed at a Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

She has learned that her body is precious and it mustn't be offered carelessly ever again, as it holds a direct connection to her heart.