Any good movie is filled with secrets.

There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

The unconscious is our best collaborator.

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

I was just trying to make a nice little movie... It wasn't until I saw it all put together that I realized this was something remarkable.

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.

I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies.

I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.

We must succeed and finish our course with joy

All great and successful people stayed alone with themselves to develop their gift

Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum of known facts, or to discover their mutual relations.

I'm an eight hours kind of sleeper, so I definitely try to schedule that in.

You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy.

The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.

Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again?

I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because the water is cold in there. And I'm like: How did my mother know that?