The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.

I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are pluralistic, flexible, relative in our judgments, if we are electic.

The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.

If you're afraid of movies that excite your senses, you're afraid of movies.

Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you want to?

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.