Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Success will ruin your life.

Once you stop believing in Santa Claus, the whole world just goes downhill.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.