Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

The road is better than the inn.

The close-up, according to D.W. Griffith, allows subtle changes of facial expression-the raising of an eyebrow or the flicker of a smile-to become part of the action.

As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds—the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.

I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.