The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect.

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without such news they would go mad with the chaos of their lives.

. . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely different medium. I think a novel is much closer to a film.

Be liked and you will never want.

A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.

But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.