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

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

Suppose by chance you do get picked up. What have you done? You shot a horse; that isn't first degree murder; in fact, it isn't even murder; in fact, I don't know what it is.

A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.

Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.

The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.

If you really want to communicate something, even if it’s just an emotion or an attitude, let alone an idea, the least effective and least enjoyable way is directly. It only goes in about an inch. But if you can get people to the point where they have to think a moment what it is you’re getting at, and then discover it, the thrill of discovery goes right through the heart.