There are three components to that purpose, one is to find out who you really are, to discover God, the second is to serve other human beings.
There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.
Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.
The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of women’s inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour that merely to recognize it is to risk unravelling the entire fabric of civilization.
There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.
But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.
The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.
The conservative candidate who ignores moderates is as misguided as the moderate candidate who ignores conservatives.
Making a film that is in seven days of one week is not a new idea.
When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.
I enjoy being influenced by other writers.