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

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

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

It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.

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

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

The reality of the final moment, just before shooting [the scene], is so powerful that all previous analysis must yield before the impressions you receive under these circumstances, and unless you use this feedback to your positive advantage, unless you adjust to it, adapt to it and accept the sometimes terrifying weaknesses it can expose, you can never realize the most out of your film.