When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.

That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.

The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.

Now I've laid me down to die I pray my neighbors not to pry Too deeply into sins that I Not only cannot here deny But much enjoyed as life flew by.

I should have had the pickle.

You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.

Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.

I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

You're confident he'll have found him, then?""Well, no. I didn't sat that.""If there's one thing I hate, " Volyova said, looking coldly at the other Triumvir, "it's mindless optimism.

There's never an end for the sea.

Love everyone, including yourself. This is real sadhana.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best

To always trust my instincts, to always believe I have something to offer — no matter how meaningless or stupid it may be — and to never listen to anyone who tells you ‘no.’

The whole creative process...is putting opposites together into something that wasn't there before.

It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery.

As for me and my family, we'll worship God.

I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.