California is always in my mind.
I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.
Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real. . . an audience should not be conscious of technique.
Good films can be made only by a crew of Dedicated Maniacs.
I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures.
When you're in the desert, you look into infinity. . . . It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big.
I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.
Premature ideas do not exist, one must bide one's time until the right moment comes along.
The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly "veneration of wealth " are now de facto in force and higher than the Founding Fathers could have imagined.
Secret to productivity is not finding more time to do more stuff, but finding the strength to do less of the stuff that doesnt need doing.
I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust.