Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.

Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea.

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.

Beauty doesn't have anything to do with prettiness. Beauty has to do with something else; it gets into an area where words can't go.

Style is the most ephemeral thing I know. It's not about how effective you are it's about how you are effective.

My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.

Sometimes other people have better ideas.

It's interesting that there are places that words can't get to.

My education was an education by movies.

your enoughness is off the charts.

Most people just laugh when they hear that the secret to success is giving. Then again, most people are nowhere near as successful as they wish they were.

Confess and be hanged.

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

I grew up watching science fiction with my dad. It was kind of our little secret. It was our bonding time as father and daughter.

Fashions in sin change.

We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves... One can't unite bananas with scattered leaves.

If a man loved me, I would have talked myself into loving him, and I would have loved him very deeply after a while.

If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

Some people who like dogs don't like cats, but I'm not like that.