It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

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.

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

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

One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.

Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.