"I don't believe in God, but I'm not an atheist. I'm an agnostic. I don't know if there's a God or not, and I don't think anyone else does either."

"The greatest danger in life is not to take the adventure."

"I think the best plots are the ones that are not too obvious, that are sort of hidden in the subtext, so that you have to think about them a bit."

"The most important thing for any director is to have a good script. If you don't have a good script, you might as well not bother."

"The idea that social restraints are all bad is based on a utopian and unrealistic vision of man."