Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.

There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.

No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to hundreds of millions of people for two hours in the dark.

There are no rules in filmmaking

My films must let every man, woman, and child know that God loves them, that I love them, and that peace and salvation will become a reality only when they all learn to love each other.

Friend, you are a divine mingle-mangle of guts and stardust. So hang in there! If doors opened for me, they can open for anyone.

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

I always felt the world cannot fall apart as long as free men see the rainbow, feel the rain and hear the laugh of a child.

Most ideologies of the world are not for the individual. They're against the individual. Communism, fascism. Any kind of an ism - almost - they're against the individual.

My Advice to Young Filmmakers is This: Don't Follow Trends. Start Them!

Dependency on stuff, on people and on things is one of the greatest things that could kill.

If the devil cannot get you by SIN, he will seek to get you by IGNORANCE.

The emerging whole manifests locally. It manifests in particular communities, groups, and, ultimately, in us as individuals.

Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not lick, and make fouler still with its slime?

There is always time for failure

To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick.

Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.

The poor have much to teach you. You have much to learn from them.

When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.

Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each other, and write in their own patch, as it were.