When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.

You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.

Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.

Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.

Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.

In marketing, the familiar is everything.

Mirrors are the essence of movies.

What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.

I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.

I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

One could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within.

Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?

You want to be as dominant as possible and you want to put some doubt in the hitters' heads. That's what I'm trying to do every single time I'm on the mound.

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can. -Isabel Culpeper

I'm no different than you.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.