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

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.

Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.

The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong.

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent