The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than skimming the surface.
Who has never killed an hour?
No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff.
Through all the windows I only see infinity.
Some people reflect light, some deflect it, you by some miracle, seem to collect it.
He [Zampano] probably would of insisted on corrections and edits, he was his own harshest critic, but I've come to believe errors, especially written errors, are often the only markers left by a solitary life: to sacrifice them is to lose the angels of personality, the riddle of a soul. In this case a very old soul. A very old riddle.
Write what you love. Love will hold you through the hard times and hold the world during the good times.
Our adversity is never just for us, but to bless others around us.
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed.
In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All of us watched it. I don't mean Mama and Daddy and Rocky. I mean all the colored people in America watched it, together, with one set of eyes.