I am so delighted when I get to see a really good movie. In that experience the artifice of movie making, the photography or the cutting style, falls away because you are inside the movie.

If you are really working on something intensely, your social skills fall away and you are not fit to be brought out into public.

Part of the discipline of being an editor is that you have to be a good audience member; your work is to be a surrogate audience member on the films you are working on.

Let me remember you, soon will the winter be on us, Snow-hushed and heartless.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wish we had.

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

I didn't read about it for school. It was just for myself. I was interested in cults in general but Jonestown was the most interesting of all the cults I studied.

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.

I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

Every person dies. Not every person really lives.