Good films can be made only by a crew of Dedicated Maniacs.

When you're in the desert, you look into infinity.... It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big.

Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.

I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures.

My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors.

I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters.

Don't make jokes about food.

I tried talking to Jesus, but he just put me on hold...

Of what value is your life, unless you are willing to sacrifice it for those you love?

None of us are meant to be or do anything. We decide what we're going to be.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it.

I'm constantly lying to my dog. He only responds to manipulation and blackmail.

We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.

Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.