The color red is associated with romance and blood, but not at the same time.
The first movies, they just put up a camera and had a train come into a train station, and everybody was amazed. That was sort of all technology.
One of the most telling things about film school is you've got a lot of students wandering around saying, "Oh, I wish I could make a movie. I wish I could make a movie. "
In the end, the most important thing to me is that I've raised three kids. I know that'll be the most important accomplishment of my life and it is the most easily obtainable, because all you have to do is pay attention. It is hard work and most people don't realize that's the real gift they are getting in terms of goals and success and accomplishments.
All of my films have been very hard to understand at the script stage because they're very different. At the time I did them they were not conventional. The executives could only think in terms of what they'd already seen. It's hard for them to think in terms of what has never been done before.
You must let go of your past and embrace your future and figure out what path you're going to go down
You can be as rich, and famous, and powerful as you want to be, and it will not bring you happiness. That's said over and over and over, again. It's such a cliché that it hardly needs to be said, but people don't understand that it's actually true.
I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth.
We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.
. . . he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.
The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings