Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.

Less intelligence capacity equals less safety.

"People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts.

I don't have a religious bone in my body but I believe artists (of any medium), in our best selves, are vessels of truth.

Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.

I love to play real people... good people that I know the audience will get behind. It's the good people in the world that I gravitate to.

You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!

The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.

We produce programs that honor God and impact our world.