The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise taste and judgment in helping the actor give his best possible performance.

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

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.

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

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong.