Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.

Don't rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes.

You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!

I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.

Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.

Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation they're inseparable.

I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.