The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.

Camouflage with a defensive grace and bounce back with joy.

Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.

I don't worry about things that aren't important.

I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that.

You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.

There can never be success without happiness, and no man can be happy without dispensing happiness to others.

Sport, rightly conceived, is an occupation carried out by the whole man.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Dear God, thank you for my life. I forgot how big and wonderful it is.

I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.