It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.

Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.

The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.

We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. but there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.