You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

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

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.

Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.

You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.

There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.