No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
You have to do every movie one at a time. Trilogy is contrary to this ideology. My nightmare is to wake up and find myself the host of a TV series.
There's no point dwelling on what might or could have been. You just have to go forward.
We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round.
Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film.
I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.
I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy. In sports there are absolute rules. It's not, What about this? What about that? Either you're safe or you're out. It's ten yards or it's not. It's in the hoop or out of the hoop. It's certain.
The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book.
I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. " I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.
It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting.
A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.