"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."

"The future is not something that happens to us. It's something that we create."

"The screen is a magic medium. It has power that can transform a person's life. It can make you laugh, it can make you cry, it can make you think. It can change your mind."

"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…"

"To be honest, the end of the book [The Shining] seemed a bit hackneyed to me and not very interesting."