“If you can’t be direct, why be?”

Remember we’re all in this alone.

Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.

Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.

In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?

I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves; I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.

I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.

I worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.

But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.

If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?

We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable.

It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.

Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied… That’s why they can keep on working.

While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.

What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.

I don’t think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism.

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.