The nature will continue, it's our existence that is finite and you are given this gift of life and you make your way with it, but fate and natural disasters will continue on.

Sound and sound design has always been very important to my approach to film, because it is a more subversive and allusive aspect of the medium.

Digging up graves is backbreaking work. So I just like that the genre of horror can embrace so many different styles and textures.

I went to good schools, and I've just always had an allergic reaction to snobbishness - always found myself preferring to blend into the woodwork. I have an affinity to those who, in a sense, failed.

We all seek comfort, and I don't pretend to want to live in squalor.

There are scripts that have come our way that are much more likely to be hits, but we don't really think that way.

The whole film business was built on immigrants: Billy Wilder and Michael Curtiz and all these hefty lads.

The worst thing that could happen to a filmmaker is growing up wanting to be a filmmaker.

I feel very strongly that a film isn't just a story, but the WAY that a story is told. It's why I am such a great fan of Hitchcock because it really is all in the filmmaking.

Accept changes but be persistent with the process.

An alibi is one alliterative consonant short of being a magic carpet

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

The greatest help you will ever have in this life is the Holy Ghost! Cultivate him as a friend and constant companion.

San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

You can't say you want things to be simple and then in the next breath ask me to be honest.

I was lucky with my first film because it had Warhol in it. That was the selling point.

I don't own an ABBA album, and I never had the urge to go and buy one. If you're just talking about well crafted pop songs, they were fantastic.

Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of God shines.