. . . it is true that language and forward movement in the cinema are jolly hard to reconcile. It's a very, very, difficult thing to do. . . . There is still a place in the cinema for movies that are driven by the human face, and not by explosions and cars and guns and action sequences . . . there's such a thing as action and speed within thought rather than within a ceaseless milkshake of images.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

The future of American film lies on television.