Everything we do in life, we do with certain expectations.

Making a film, I've learned, can be an exhausting process, due to the need for backing, distribution, etc.

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.

In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god.

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.