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

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.

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.

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.

Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth

You can never truly become great if you do not discover your purpose in life.

Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.

I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I'm gonna rip it off.

I tasted - careless - then - I did not know the Wine Came once a World - Did you? Oh, had you told me so - This Thirst would blister - easier - now

But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

Things aren't magically better if that's what you're hoping for. It's not that simple.