If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.

The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.

The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.

It’s not a lie. It’s a gift for fiction.

We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.