It's art. It's commerce. It's heartbreaking and it's fun. It's a great way to live.

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.

All good work requires self-revelation.

Everything becomes creative if the person doing the job is

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.

Good style, to me, is unseen style.

The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't.

I only said 'Titanic' is unwatchable because one can not watch it.

There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.

Don't let the difficulty of actually achieving a shot make you think that the shot is good.

There were so many of these moments that could never be captured accurately, even in the camcorder, only in the heart.

Regret, Joss. Regret does awful things to a person.

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak they are but the instruments of the wise.

Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.

Jealous leaders measure their success by the failure of others.

I wish all men were like dogs.

In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface.

I'm constantly changing and evolving so I don't abide by just one certain style.

There is nothing you cannot do.