The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite

The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

Stay innocent. I'm 69 years old, and I'm still innocent.

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

I probably have genius. But no talent.

You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.

I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories.

It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.

A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

We had access to too much equipment, too much money, and little by little we went insane.

I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.

Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.