You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.

You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.

One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.

The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.

Regret isn't going to get me anywhere. It's like being obsessed with something. It doesn't bring you anywhere.

You either care or you don’t.

I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.