It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made.

Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.

Everything has changed, but the process of telling a story has not changed. It's like cavemen sitting around the fire; somebody's going to tell the story. Somebody is drawing on the wall. You're communicating. You're trying to learn and teach at the same time. You're your own student and you're your own teacher, but the process is of the communicating.

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent

A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.