A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

Education is the best fertilizer for the mind.

I always loved Little Anthony and the Imperials. They were like the precursors of the Temptations. I loved their music.

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

I will teach them what it means to put a lion in a cage, Cersei thought.

My husband calls me a ginger every single day of my life, so that Im completely used to it, and Ive come to see it as a term of endearment.

Don't be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.

You can learn all sorts of rules and techniques of writing and still not be able to assemble something beautiful or enchanting.

The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.

A close-up on screen can say all a song can.

We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.