Simplicity is the key to beauty. Clarity is the key to perfection.

Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.

And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold.

Sometimes command means letting those under you do their job

Look at 'em, ' he said. 'Goddam fools.' 'Who?' said Ginnie. 'I don't know. Anybody.

People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are.

The greatest antidote to insecurity & sense of fear is compassion. It brings one back to the basis of one's inner strength.

Film for me became how I related to everything else.

I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.

I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.

The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on.