If you want to be a filmmaker, ask yourself if you could imagine doing any other job. If you can, that’s a script!

Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.

Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive.

Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always let it keep rolling.

What's this war in the heart of Nature? Why does Nature vie with itself? The Land contend with the Sea? Is there an avenging power in Nature? Not one power, but two?

My attitude is always let it keep rolling.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

I prefer working behind the camera.

Martin Sheen was extraordinary. He's a very gifted man.

I film quite a bit of footage, then edit. Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always 'let it keep rolling.'

The person performing the experiment becomes the object of the experiment himself

Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.

The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

For years, I ate the same foods every day, in exactly the same manner, at exactly the same times.

The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you.

The capture of Saddam has not made America safer.

Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a constant state of flux.