It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people can't see.

Art is a sense of magic.

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?

What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black.

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

There are a lot of movies made for nobody.

I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.

If only, then, I had been more living out of the present--such a beautiful word...present. The sense of it being, now to me, more beautiful than 'to look forward.

No one knows a man better than himself.

A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.

If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.

I am an advocate... of public financing for years. That is the one way to get money out of politics. I believe that would be what we ought to be doing.

One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.

Each book takes anywhere from two to three years to complete, from concept to outline to final edits. I work on as many as five at a time.

Appreciation and gratitude are a must if you choose to become the architect of increased happiness and your own fulfillment.

Humility, never me; it is a characteristic I expect to find in other people.

Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.

Treat 'em like a prostitute, don't treat 'em well until your sure of the scoop.