I'm short enough and ugly enough to succeed on my own.

You can't anticipate in the room the riches of what you encounter when you're location hunting for a movie.

My mother never had time for me. When you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any attention.

Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.

There's no point in looking back, because there's nothing you can really do to improve the film. You can only aggravate and wish you had done stuff better.

In formulating any philosophy the first consideration must always be: What can we know? That is, what can we be sure we know, or sure that we know we knew it, if indeed it is at all knowable. Or have we simply forgotten it and are too embarrassed to say anything? Descartes hinted at the problem when he wrote, 'My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.