Each picture with its particular environment and unique personal relationships is a world unto itself - separate and distinct. Picture makers lead dozens of lives - a life for each picture. And, by the same token, they perish a little when each picture is finished and that world comes to an end. In this respect it is a melancholy occupation.

I am more lost in wonder than ever.

Whenever something is convenient or was modified after 1970, you probably shouldn't use it as root.

What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.

Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.