"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

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

"I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are."

"I'm not a religious person, but I'm very interested in what makes people believe in things."