When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

To see things plainly, you have to cross a frontier.

When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.

How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.

What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to pare everything down and find the kind of essence, the skeleton if you like, which can then be fleshed out by performance and cinematography.