I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.

Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities?

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?

No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.

Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.