Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life--that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.

I'm lost in space and I want to find a way home. Nobody else can get me back to the planet, so I have to do it myself.

Many people say they do not fear death, but the process of dying. It’s not the destination, but the trip that they dread.

The beginning of suffering is often a refusal to look at the situation as it really is.

I know how easy it is to be swept away by stories, by things you wish were real.

My style is constantly evolving. Style has been something that I think has been the hardest thing for me to come to terms with.

Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy.

You're seeing the first communist-produced automobile coming in to the U.S.. What I'm going to run on is a rebirth of capitalism.

I look upon all the world as my parish.

All good management is the expression of one great idea

My own perception of cops was that they came into your neighborhood, they roughed up people that you loved for no reason and took them away. As a child you saw that.

I read a lot of plays as a kid, but I didn't see that many plays, so I feel better-versed in film history and film structure. I just think it's easier to think in pictures.