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Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.

I want my writing to bring people not just to think of "trees" as they mostly do now, but of each individual tree, and each kind of tree.

There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct it are not unlike those of a good quartermaster.

Some people think to be strong is to never feel pain. However the strongest people are the ones that have felt pain, understood it, accepted it and learned from it.

Only a heathen would bring a gun to a sword fight.' And only a moron would bring a sword to a gunfight.

Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft.

People are either charming or tedious.

At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are.

There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.