You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.

Life is too short. I don't have time to speak slowly.

Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.

She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.

It takes two to Tao.

Dead mothers are rather fashionable these days. They lend such an attractive air of tragedy.

Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.

I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.

Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of carpentry in the whole of the human workshop.

We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions--some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive--to fill the emptiness.

I was never fearful or scared. I knew God had me and my wife and children knew it as well so we just marched.

We can't always control what happens but we can control our response

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.