If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.

Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other

The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.