The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.

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

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.

Verily I say unto you all: Arise and shine forth, that thy light may be a standard for the nations.

As long as there have been women, " Mom told me, "there have been ways to punish them for being women.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

To think is not always to see.

In Dallas, in Houston, the local stuff is great. But the national media is really brutal. So you know, I'd love to see the media get honest.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

I've actually considered going with my married name, Julia Hall, but all the paperwork.

It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.

I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there.

I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.