The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.

A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.

The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.

The foundation of all civilization is loitering.

The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.

I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.

This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of realities is joy itself.

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.

Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.

In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.

The pillow smells like the sunlight, a precious smell.

Ill try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.

The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants.

His heart was simply to big for his body.

I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.