What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.

In horror movies today its lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.

My movies, in general, I have the impression that when they finish of course they're never originally what you had in mind.

I would love to stay alone when I'm creating.

I could feel the real interaction between directing and acting, when an actor or an actress really suggests very interesting things.

My first cut is always pretty similar to the final cut.

I am confident in my FAITH because I know the character of God and am assured by the love and mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

Trusting anyone can get you killed.

When one admires an artist it is important not to know him personally.

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?

I think that we want to be led slightly astray when we're being told a story. Just a little wrong footed.

If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know the fears and hopes of the writers you teach.

Open your mind, allow your feelings to be expressed, to be pushed out, and your heart will neither break nor burst, but be a free-flowing channel of the life energy in your soul.

A good old rodeo never hurt anyone.