Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage.

If you are not failing now and again, its a sign you are not doing anything very innovative

If the [actors] are working, and I have a dinner engagement, I don't do 20 takes. I do five takes and go home. I want to go to dinner.

I've always liked, someday the lamb will lay by the lion.... but it won't get much sleep.

My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.

How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich.

I was walking through the woods, thinking about Christ. If He was a carpenter, I wondered what He charged for bookshelves.