There are no minor decisions in movie making. Each decision will either contribute to a good piece of work or bring the whole movie crashing down around my head many months later.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

Don't let the difficulty of actually achieving a shot make you think that the shot is good.

There's a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at.

Good style, to me, is unseen style.

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.

The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't.