Art consists of reshaping life, but it does not create life nor cause life.

Observation is a dying art.

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

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.