The future of American film lies on television.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

. . . 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.

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.

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

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.