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.

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

It's a passion when you're doing it for other people and you're doing it for the people around you making the film and the people who are going to see the film, and the giving. When you start thinking about you doing it for some sort of self-gain, then I think it becomes an obsession. It becomes a negative experience.

The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache. This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.

Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.

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

I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.