It's good to know where you've come from.

Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs and you're usually best listening.

I've always been very, very supportive of fan cultures. I'm a fan of all kinds of things.

With a DVD, you want something you can own, you can watch, you can come to grips with and you can explore. It's something larger than the film, when it's going out to a fan base.

As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want. That's the point of my commentaries. It's so difficult because you're the harshest critic.

Despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just say that is the sort of nonsense up with which we will not put.

The more you resist change, the more it will be painful for you to accept it.

If the good is not dependent on the bad and can be separated from it, one gives effect to the good that remains after the separation if it still gives effect to the main objective.

But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.

Without risk, there can be no growth.

Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?

Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.