The storyboard for me is the way to visualise the entire movie in advance.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

Reyna sent me to get Percy, " Frank said. "Did Octavian accept you?""Yeah, " Percy said. "He slaughtered my panda.

Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.

It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.

Seriously. Dados bounce." Bobby in Raven Rise

It is this trick of capitalism, of subjecting labor to competition, while lifted wholly above it by class law itself, that is objectionable.

Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

There is no sin that God cannot pardon. All we need to do is ask for forgiveness

The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness