The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.

The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

Like the man said, can happiness buy money?