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.

I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

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

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

It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made.

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?

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