The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
The destruction of this universe would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don’t want.
The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
The truth of a thing is the feel of it not the think of it.
The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes.
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.
Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you’re in trouble.
Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.
Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something from different points of view almost simultaneously, and it creates a new experience.
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.