I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

A person that does not value your time will not value your advice.

I can't keep up with Stephen King's output.

I'm not quite at the point where I feel the need to wear disguises in public.

These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives.

Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!

Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it. [Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.]

Being a warrior doesn’t mean winning or even succeeding. It means risking and failing and risking again, as long as you live.

The TV provides pictures, therefore creates fame, and that's what makes it seductive to a lot of people. They want to be famous. They want to be recognized. And I've gotten all that out of my system.

Those who doubt most, and yet strive to overcome their doubts, turn out to be some of Christ's strongest disciples.

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.