Like The Man Said, Can Happiness Buy

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, Or The Smell Of Paint, Or Celluloid And Photographic Images And Working With Actors. I Don't Think That Any Genuine Artist Has Ever Been Oriented By Some Didactic Point Of View, Even If He Thought He Was.

[making Movies] You're Not Trying To Capture Reality, You're Trying To Capture A Photograph Of Reality.

I’ve Never Been Certain Whether The Moral Of The Icarus Story Should Only Be, As Is Generally Accepted, ‘don’t Try To Fly Too High,’ Or Whether It Might Also Be Thought Of As ‘forget The Wax And Feathers, And Do A Better Job On The Wings.

New York Was The Only Really Hostile City. Perhaps There Is A Certain Element Of The Lumpen Literati That Is So Dogmatically Atheist And Materialist And Earth-bound That It Finds The Grandeur Of Space And The Myriad Mysteries Of Cosmic Intelligence Anathema.

The Very Meaninglessness Of Life Forces Man To Create His Own Meaning.