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

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.

Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.

The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.