Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.

Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

For a brokenhearted person memories are the vital parts of misery

Wouldn't it be strange, she thought, to have a blue sky? But she liked the way it looked. It would be beautiful - a blue sky.

One eare it heard, at the other out it went.

The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.

I feel even less patience with transsexuals.

That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.

Doing a series, every week you work with a new star.

The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where a man can live, there - if he will - he can also live well.

This nation is the hope of the Earth.

I'd rather go to sleep than find a girl.