I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.

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.

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

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'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.

The nurses did their best to spruce up the antiseptic corridors but the smell of pine boughs was overpowered by Pine Sol and no one paused beneath the mistletoe on the contagious ward.

The FDA serves a real purpose: To protect public health.

It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

None but God is loved in the exist- ent things. It is He who is manifest within every beloved to the eye of every lover – and there is nothing in the existent realm that is not a lover

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

I was a horrible limo driver: I ran out of gas with passengers in the back and I used to get lost on a regular basis.

Maharajji told me, 'Give up anger and I'll help you.' I found that love freed me back into the ocean of love and my righteous anger didn't do that. And I would rather be free than right.

You can create a business, choose a name, but unless people know about it you're not going to sell any products.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

The ability to make and keep promises is the key aspect to trust in a relationship.