Life lies before us, as a huge quarry lies before the architect: he deserves not the name of architect, except when, out of this fortuitous mass, he can combine, with the greatest economy and fitness and durability, some form, the pattern of which originated in his spirit

There's something really valuable about putting people in a state of duress, and they have to reach far inside themselves to get the physical endurance or knowledge needed to do something they thought they couldnt do.

The man that hath no music in himself. Let no such man be trusted

To write a poem all you need is pen and paper. This puts cinema at a disadvantage. But I think cinema is invincible, and I bow down to all the directors who try to realise their own films despite everything.

Let it never die