You have to keep banging away at something until you get it to work. I think women are maybe better at that.

Like a lady who has lost weight and she's just getting to that point where she can fit into that favourite dress, you get the film down to just about the right cut. You can feel it when it happens.

I read the script just once, and then forget it.I just deal with what I see every day on the screen and whetherI believe it and understand it.

Jack Cardiff - the greatest cameraman who ever worked in colour - was a lab boy to start with so he knew Technicolor from the inside out.

Michael Powell always used to say 'I'm a typical Englishman'. He was and he wasn't. He was very cosmopolitan and spent a lot of time in Europe.

Once I finished reading a good book, it gives me a hard time coping up with reality.

Life, oblivious to his grief, continued

In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

The National Park Service shot a mule in the face. He survived but had trouble swallowing and often food came out of his nose.

The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.

Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write.

India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.

But there is something seductive and the character, Alfie is so charming, and does make you think like you are the most important thing in the world but he's not that nice, is he.

You commit a felony, it does not matter who you are, you could be deported.