Love is a tyrant, resisted.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.

I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.

I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism.

When in doubt, make a western.

Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?

Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.

Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.

I have a vision, I have a will.So I own my life and I control my future

It was hard to listen to her all the time without getting to say anything back

Work with whatever tool you may have at your disposal, and you shall find better tool as you go ahead.

Ease happens when you have the feeling of what you want inside of you.

Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.

One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.

There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I've found to be true: writing begets writing.

I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

They said that I had sold out and (am an) Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view. But I have my thoughts. And I think they're race-hustling poverty pimps.

I've never given up. I've always kept going. I don't feel that I could afford to give up. That would be the beginning of the end.