The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.

Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom.

Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship,’ we call it ‘concern for commercial viability.

It's upsetting to be a man in our society.