The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache. This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.

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

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.

Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.

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