"Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all."

"The thing about movies is that they're a reflection of life, but they're also a way of escaping from it."

"The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent."

"I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form: they like words…"

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."