The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.

I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.

success is easy with just a prayer, encouragement and patience!

In our unlucky times, it is a great comfort to think that luck favors only the bad guys or the dull!

Some people have told me they remember the film that one of my images is derived from, but in fact I had no film in mind at all.

To be animating at the same time, it's the ultimate freedom in filmmaking because you can literally put anything on the screen that you can imagine.

Caring for veterans shouldn’t be a partisan issue. It should an American one.

I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language.

When I am through learning, I am through.

All things are subject to decay and change.

To women silence gives their proper grace.

Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of gimmicks to "personalize" the author.