If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.
Adversity is a stimulus.
I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.
Life is adventure, not predicament.
I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.