If you can talk brilliantly about a problem

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

All my life I've always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.

The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.

From the very beginning, all of my films have divided the critics. Some have thought them wonderful, and others have found very little good to say. But subsequent critical opinion has always resulted in a very remarkable shift to the favorable. In one instance, the same critic who originally rapped the film has several years later put it on an all-time best list. But of course, the lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.