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

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

I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.

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

One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.

Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.

New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.