As soon as we become one with the ocean in the shape of God, there is no more rest for us, nor indeed do we need rest any longer.
If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.
One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.
The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.
If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.
I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.
The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.
Yes, there is weeping, even in heaven, but it is for those who are still crawling on the earth.
The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace.
It is absolutely stunning. You cannot read numbers that communicate what the reality is. That's part of what I'm trying to get across and that's partly why I use video.
It's a divine art to be cheerful.