Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and read more

It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.

The film begins with the title card from an Old Arabian Proverb: And the Prophet said, 'And lo, the beast read more

The film begins with the title card from an Old Arabian Proverb: And the Prophet said, 'And lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty. And it stayed its hand from killing. And from that day, it was as one dead.'

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened read more

Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop read more

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.