I just write mechanical things.
Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?
I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it is only man who views time sequentially and tries to impose a solar calendar upon it. What if other people, both dead and unborn, are living out their lives in the same space we occupy, without our knowledge or consent?" The Glass Rainbow, p. 138
There is no higher form of artistic expression then film
I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.
We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.
It isn't the kind of profession that you have that makes you flourish; it's what you are coming from, within, that makes you flourish. Then everything that you step into turns into your garden.
Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
The risks are 'How country can you go?' rather than 'How rock can you take it?'
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.