Don't take anything from me because I'll track it down.
If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.
If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.
Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.
We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made.
The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. All the reasons which make the initiation of physical force an evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. If some "pacifist" society renounced the retaliatory use of force, it would be left helplessly at the mercy of the first thug who decided to be immoral. Such a society would achieve the opposite of its intention: instead of abolishing evil, it would encourage and reward it.
Lord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!