I'm Not Good At Standing On Platforms

Insofar As I'm Good At Directing, It's Because I've Become A Writer.

. . . It Is True That Language And Forward Movement In The Cinema Are Jolly Hard To Reconcile. It's A Very, Very, Difficult Thing To Do. . . . There Is Still A Place In The Cinema For Movies That Are Driven By The Human Face, And Not By Explosions And Cars And Guns And Action Sequences . . . There's Such A Thing As Action And Speed Within Thought Rather Than Within A Ceaseless Milkshake Of Images.

In Oratory The Will Must Predominate.

I Think The Novel Is The American Form Because People Read It In Private, And The Only Valuable Things That Happen In America Happen In Private Life, Because Public Life Is A Dead Loss.

I'm Vey Bad At Marshaling Arguments. I Can't, At A Dinner Party, Explain Why I'm A Socialist And Why Others Should Be Socialists As Well.