There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.

You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.

A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.

The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.

I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.

No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie.

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.

It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.

Like the man said, can happiness buy money?

The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.

The best education in film is to make one

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.