“A line is a dot that went for a walk.”
“Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.”
“Human beings share the same common problems; a film can only be understood if it depicts them properly.”
“With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with a bad script even a good director can’t make a good film.”
“In a mad world, only the mad are sane.”
“To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.”
“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”
“Ideas shape the course of history.”
“Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.”
“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”
“In the long run we are all dead.”
“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”