You sorta lose the fear of failure when everyone thinks you already gave it your best shot and blew it.

And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue has exhausted their brains' capacity to cope with any further irregularity

I have always loved the Bay Area. I spent a lot of time in the Bay Area. I started my career there. That's a huge part of the excitement for me.

It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.

Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness.

The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Why inquire if you already know the answer?

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.

I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.

When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.

Film is the greatest teacher because it teaches not only through the brain but through the whole body