It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.

For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

It's probably unprecedented for a filmmaker simply to take the writers' script and treat it as the instructions on the package. What really happens is you pretty much suppress your own instincts - and your own views on the matter - and write things the way filmmakers would like to have them, though the filmmakers often don't know what they want. They can only find out by reading what you do.

When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

I take every possible side.

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.