Everybody Has Their Black Moments.

There Are Few Things More Fundamentally Encouraging And Stimulating Than Seeing Someone Else Die.

The World's Religions, For All Their Parochialism, Did Supply A Kind Of Consolation For This Great Ache. This Shattering Recognition Of Our Mortality Is At The Root Of Far More Mental Illness Than I Suspect Even Psychiatrists Are Aware.

A Filmmaker Has Almost The Same Freedom As A Novelist Has When He Buys Himself Some Paper.

It's A Mistake To Confuse Pity With Love.

The First Really Important Book I Read About Filmmaking Was The Film Technique By Pudovkin. This Was Some Time Before I Had Ever Touched A Movie Camera And It Opened My Eyes To Cutting And Montage.