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

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

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

If you really want to communicate something, even if it’s just an emotion or an attitude, let alone an idea, the least effective and least enjoyable way is directly. It only goes in about an inch. But if you can get people to the point where they have to think a moment what it is you’re getting at, and then discover it, the thrill of discovery goes right through the heart.

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

Everybody has their black moments.