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

I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.

I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.

Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.

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

It's a passion when you're doing it for other people and you're doing it for the people around you making the film and the people who are going to see the film, and the giving. When you start thinking about you doing it for some sort of self-gain, then I think it becomes an obsession. It becomes a negative experience.