Knowledge is of two kinds: that which is absorbed and that which is heard. And that which is heard does not profit if it is not absorbed.
Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor.
My next film is always shaped by the last one. . . by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.
Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.
Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea.
Style is the most ephemeral thing I know. It's not about how effective you are it's about how you are effective.
I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.
They hold their great balls in the open air, in what is called a fairy-ring. For weeks afterward you can see the ring on the grass. It is not there when they begin, but they make it by waltzing round and round. Sometimes you will find mushrooms inside the ring, and these are fairy chairs that the servants have forgotten to clear away. The chairs and the rings are the only tell-tale marks these little people leave behind them, and they would remove even these were they not so fond of dancing that they toe it till the very moment of the opening of the gates.
My God, I have come with the seeds of questions. I planted them, and they never flowered.
I'm known as a recruiter. Well you've got to have chicken to make chicken salad.
Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them believable.