If you faced a long hungry period with nothing between you and starvation but a bit of barley and a pig, you'd be better off turning the barley into beer and letting the pig starve.

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

Failure is an option, fear is not.

Hate is a disease, and in 1930 I became sick with hatred.

Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film.

It's really the sense of isolation, more than anything, realizing how tiny you are down in this big vast black unknown and unexplored place.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.