You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.

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