I love a small dinner party - let's say six people, max, were everybody's having the same conversation. That's my favorite thing in the world.
I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.
Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.
If I knew that, I'd fall in love over and over again. Hearts aren't supposed to be mended. If you fall in love and it doesn't work out, you get a broken heart. What comes out of that will make you a better lover and partner next time.
Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises.
To see a comedy in an environment where you're surrounded by other people that are laughing is great. That's probably more satisfying than just watching it by yourself.
But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes.
Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination. ” “A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting. ” “You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right.