"Film is such an extraordinary rich medium which can handle so many different modes of operation, combining together in the same place all these extraordinary disciplines which may be executed in their own right - music, writing, picture making of all kinds, and I often feel that some filmmakers make films with one eye closed and two hands tied behind their backs."

"Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else."

"A hand cannot write on itself."

"It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting."