In life, we all learn from everyone.

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.

You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.

Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.

Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.

Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.

When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'

In marketing, the familiar is everything.

Mirrors are the essence of movies.

What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

Frankly, I love my independence too much to give it up.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.

Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.

America is always attracting people, from all over the earth.

Under national "socialism", there is also only one party. But nothing will come out of this fascist one-party system.

It's not his job, the president's, to pick winners and losers, nor to pass judgment on anybody.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

He said that in a way being loved is like being told you never have to die.