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

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

It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.

Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.

What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.