Understand life's mysteries, - as mysteries to be lived.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains.

You can't legislate sobriety.

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.

The thing that's interesting about wire walking is that we never get to see it other than looking up. It's like a circus thing. It's a guy on a wire.

I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

Movies are movies. Some bend light through a lens. Some create moving images virtually. At the end of the day, movies are movies.

Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her.

Writing something new is an effective way to get rid of writer's block. Or you can observe the people around you and fantasize like I do.

It's not a luxury if you can't do without it!

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them — I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them — the point is that I know a good person when I see one.

Women and girls have been my passion for my whole life.

It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.

Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

Let the little fairy in you fly!

A dead body revenges not injuries.