A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.

Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams

Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.

What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene.

I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.

Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Mirth is the Mail of Anguish --

Paris Hilton's house was pretty exciting.

I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.

Now we notice that Mars doesn't have any atmosphere either and won't support life. In spite of the fact that it turns green and red and purple with the seasons, it doesn't support life.

The Family is the salt of the earth and the light of the world, it is the leaven of society.

We now should be able to see cosmos and individual joined in a relationship. We should see that macrocosm and microcosm are, as it were, only far-flung parts of one unified energy center.

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

First of all, merely by living a simple life with a heart dedicated to overcoming self-cherishing, we automatically benefit others.