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.

The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.

Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.

Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.

I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

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

Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.