[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.

I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.

Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.

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

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem

If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go mad, or succumb to a numbing sense of futility. Why, he might ask himself, should he bother to write a great symphony, or strive to make a living, or even to love another, when he is no more than a momentary microbe on a dust mote whirling through the unimaginable immensity of space?